military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) (06/25/91)
From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) Wednesday, 25 June, 1941 Sweden, under pressure from Berlin, agrees to allow passage of a German division by rail from Norway to Finland. Soviet aircraft bomb Finland following a proclamation condemning Finland and Rumania for allowing Germany to use their territories. Finnish fighters and AA guns down 26 of the attacking bombers. Pockets begin to form as German spearheads converge. The Soviet 3rd, 4th, and 10th Armies are in danger near Bialystok, and two deeper spearheads aim at Minsk. Churchill warns the House of Commons that the U-boat campaign is exacting a critical toll on British shipping. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Bill Thacker military@att.att.com Send submissions for "50 Years Ago" to military-request@att.att.com "We shall bomb Germany by day as well as by night in ever-increasing numbers and make the German people taste and gulp each month a sharper dose of the miseries they have inflicted upon mankind." - Winston Churchill