military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) (05/29/91)
From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) Saturday, 31 May, 1941 An armistice is signed between Britain and Iraq, guaranteeing the right of Britain to move troops through the country and promising that Iraq will not undertake to aid the Axis. German aircraft, ordered to attack Liverpool and Bristol, mistakenly bomb Dublin, killing 28. Britain announces that civilian casualties from German air attacks totalled 11,459 killed in May, with nearly 40,000 killed since September, 1940. Following two more British attacks on German aircraft based in Sfax, Syria, Admiral Darlan announces that France is prepared to use force to make Britain respect her possessions. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Bill Thacker military@att.att.com Send submissions for "50 Years Ago" to military-request@att.att.com "Rallying round her chief, Marshal Petain, our vanquished country still retains sufficient dignity to decline to accept either violence against her territory or insults to her flag." - Admiral Darlan of France