military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) (10/16/89)
From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) Monday, 16 October, 1939 Nine Ju-88 bombers of the Luftwaffe attack the Royal Navy's base at Rosyth, on the Firth of Forth, Scotland. The heavy cruiser Southampton is hit by a dud bomb, and fifteen defenders are killed. This is the first air raid on British territory. The German U-45 is sunk in the Bay of Biscay by the French DD Cyclone. German counterattacks in the Saar region force the remaining French troops back across the border; casualties to both nations are light. German High Command announces the official end of the Polish campaign, though scattered resistance still holds out. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Bill Thacker military@cbnews.att.com Send submissions for "50 Years Ago" to military-request@att.att.com "Germany is prepared to take up this monstrous battle if it is unavoidable ... It will be a decisive battle for our right to give to Eastern Europe the new order tha the victors at Versailles failed to establish." - Frankfurter Zeitung