military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) (10/05/89)
Thursday, 5 October, 1939 Hitler flies to Warsaw for the victory parade there, as scattered Polish forces are still being mopped up. Eight different groups of British and French warships join in hunting for the Admiral Graf Spee, at large in the South Atlantic, while her sister ship, Deutschland, sinks the SS Stonegate in the North Atlantic. The Soviet Union and Latvia sign a Mutual Assistance Pact, and Soviet troops occupy that nation. In France, 26 Communist members of the Chamber of Deputies are arrested. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Bill Thacker military@cbnews.att.com Send submissions for "50 Years Ago" to military-request@att.att.com "FRENCH ROUT NAZIS IN BATTLE OF TANKS" - New York Times headline, describing a minor incident on the Western Front.