military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) (03/07/91)
From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) Friday, 7 March, 1941 The U-47 is sunk by the DD HMS Wolverine during an attack on a British convoy. The sub's captain, Guenther Prien, was one of Germany's leading U-boat commanders, and was known as "The Bull of Scapa Flow" for his daring attack in that harbor. In response to a strike in Clydeside, the Admiralty assumes control over shipyard labor. The first elements of the British expeditionary force to Greece land at Piraeus. References: C.Argyle, _Chronology of World War II_ R.Dupuy and T.Dupuy, _The Encyclopedia of Military History_ R.Goralski, _World War II Almanac, 1931-1945_ J.Keegan, ed., _The Times Atlas of the Second World War_ C.Messenger, _Atlas of World War Two_ J.Piekalkiewicz, _Tank War 1939-1940_ Royal Institute of International Affairs, _Chronology of the Second World War_ C.Salmaggi and A.Pallavisini, _2194 Days of War_ Brig. P.Young, _The World Almanac of World War II_ The New York Times, daily editions Time magazine Newsweek -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Bill Thacker military@att.att.com Send submissions for "50 Years Ago" to military-request@att.att.com "We cannot preserve the American way unless we preserve also the British way, the Chinese way, the Norwegian way, and the way of other free peoples." - Wendell Willkie