military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) (05/17/91)
From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) Saturday, 17 May, 1941 As British forces conclude an orderly withdrawal, German forces in Egypt consolidate their territory, re-occupying Sollum and Fort Capuzzo. German air attacks on Crete continue, focused mostly against RAF airfields there. Italian aircraft reach Iraq and prepare to support the pro-Axis forces of Rashid Ali. "President Roosevelt or some one else might rally popular feeling in America to full war effort with an inspiring outline of the ways in which the defeat of Nazi Germany would shield the world against German aggression for as long as fifty years to come." - George Dock Jr., in a letter to the NY Times