military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) (06/03/91)
From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) Wednesday, 4 June, 1941 Japan claims 80,000 Chinese soldiers killed in fighting near Chungyuan, listing only 554 losses among its own troops. Germany's former leader, Kaiser Wilhelm II, dies at age 82 in Doorn. Two German support ships, the Gonzenheim and Esso Hamburg, are intercepted by British warships and scuttled. These ships, needed to refuel and rearm Germany's submarines and raiders, have been located by British cryptographers via Enigma intercepts. A new Iraqi government is formed by British authorities, while France occuses Britain of planning to invade Syria. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Bill Thacker Moderator, sci.military military-request@att.att.com (614) 860-5294 Send submissions to military@att.att.com "This war must be regarded as our war by any one who genuinely believes in democracy." - Alfred B. Lewis, in a letter to the New York Times