military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) (11/14/89)
From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) Tuesday, 14 November, 1939 The Allies finalize "Plan D", aka the Dyle Plan, which calls for a German invasion of Belgium to be countered by an Allied advance into that country, with the intent of defending along the Meuse-Antwerp line. Japanese Imperial headquarters announces that an amphibious landing had been staged neark Pakhoi, 300 miles southwest of Canton and about 100 miles from French Indo-China. This area of the front had been inactive since October, 1938. Finland reports a number of incidents along its Russian border. Included are cases of Soviet infantry with fixed bayonets charging Finnish wire barricades while firing into the air, and warplanes flying low "hedgehopping" missions over the border zone. One Soviet aircraft is reportedly shot down. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Bill Thacker military@cbnews.att.com Send submissions for "50 Years Ago" to military-request@att.att.com "No nation is more pacific than the French nation. No nation has consented to more sacrifices for peace in Europe." - French President Albert Lebrum