military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) (02/09/91)
From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) Monday, 10 February, 1941 The RAF conducts night raids against Hannover with 189 bombers, and Short Stirling 4-engine bombers are used on their first raid, attacking oil storage facilities at Rotterdam. British paratroopers also get into the act; flying from Malta, they are dropped in southern Italy, where they wreck the Tragino Aqueduct. Britain breaks off relations with Rumania because of that country's actions in permitting the deployment of German forces within its borders. The 4th Indian division renews its attack against Keren, Eritrea, but Italian resistance, including well-executed counterattacks, prevents the Indians from advancing. Lt. General Cunningham begins an advance into Italian East Africa and Ethiopia from Kenya, leading a force of one South African and two African divisions. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Bill Thacker military@att.att.com Send submissions for "50 Years Ago" to military-request@att.att.com "The destruction of Greece would overshadow the victories won by British forces in Libya and our indifference to the fate of our allies might induce Turkey to change its attitude." - Winston Churchill, in a message to General Wavell