military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) (11/18/89)
From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) Sunday, 19 November, 1939 Barricades are built around the Jewish quarter in Warsaw by occupying Germans. Churchill proposes to use aircraft to lay mines in the Rhine, between Strasbourg and the river Lauter. The USSR and Japan begin negotiations on a trade pact. A further two merchantmen are lost to mines in the North Sea. Germany disclaims responsibility for yesterday's sinking of the Dutch liner Simon Bolivar, but Britain charges that the mine was laid by U-boats of the Kriegsmarine. A demonstration by the 7th Regiment, 107th Infantry (The Old Seventh) of the New York National Guard shows the virtue of the Army's new Garand rifle. Prone markmen were able to fire 32 shots per man per minute, compared to only 20 shots for the older Springfield rifle. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Bill Thacker military@cbnews.att.com Send submissions for "50 Years Ago" to military-request@att.att.com "When not smuggling stocks and bonds, Little Goebbels chases blondes. Naughty, naughty little Goebbels, adding to your Fuehrer's troebbels." - from "Ruthless Rhymes", distributed by the London Palladium music hall