military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) (06/05/91)
From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) Monday, 2 June, 1941 Hitler and Mussolini meet at the Brenner Pass, discussing control over Greece and Croatia. Mussolini is told that talk of an invasion of Russia is "excessively premature." The Vichy government orders a census taken of French Jews and grants the Axis the use of the port of Bizerta, Tunisia. The port is only to be used for food and clothing, not troops or fighting equipment. Lou Gehrig, the "Iron Man" of baseball, dies of a very rare disease, amytrophic lateral sclerosis, at age 37. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Bill Thacker military@att.att.com Send submissions for "50 Years Ago" to military-request@att.att.com "You, my parachutists and air-borne troops, you, my aviators, jointly with your army comrades under proved leaders of all ranks have completed a singular achievement. Unendingly proud and happy, I report to the Fuehrer the consummation of his order. You before the entire world have proved the Fuehrer's words. 'There is no unconquerable island.'" - Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering