military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) (10/20/89)
From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) Friday, 20 October, 1939 Berlin announces that 20,000 square miles of Pomorze (West Prussia) and Poznan (Posen) are to be re-annexed to the Reich. They had been surrendered to form Poland after WWI. Hitler warns that neutral ships which join Allied convoys may be sunk without warning. The New York Times carries the story of one Donald McBain, a 21-year old cook from Edinburgh, who had celebrated his good fortune for having been transferred from the HMS Courageous a few days before her sunking by a German U-boat. He was transferred, unfortunately, the the Royal Oak, and was killed when she sank 6 days ago. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Bill Thacker military@cbnews.att.com Send submissions for "50 Years Ago" to military-request@att.att.com "Herr Hitler had better hurry. Over the downs of Devon, above the Midland fens, and now above the grain-rich plains of Saskatchewan and Alberta, propellers are whirring." - Time Magazine, describing the training efforts of the RAF