military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) (05/17/91)
From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) Monday, 19 May, 1941 Despite being bombed by German planes, the Habbaniyah airfield steps up its operations, supporting Allied troops which capture Fallujah. The Egyptian passenger liner Zamzam is sunk by a German raider in the South Atlantic. Vichy announces that 100,000 French POW's are to be released and relaxes restrictions on the border between Occupied and Unoccupied France. The RAF withdraws its few remaining aircraft based on Crete. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Bill Thacker military@att.att.com Send submissions for "50 Years Ago" to military-request@att.att.com "If we must fight to win from people who understand nothing but fighting and force, then we must fight -- whole-heartedly, with our greatest possible strength and resource. But let us not hate..." - Dorothea Stats, in a letter to the New York Times