military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) (05/14/91)
From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) Tuesday, 13 May, 1941 Martin Bormann is appointed Chancellor of the Nazi Party, succeeding Rudolf Hess. Axis troops repel a British attempt to lift the siege of Tobruk. The Mufti of Jerusalem, now in exile, broadcasts from Baghdad urging all Islamic countries to rise and fight against Britain. The U-98 sinks the 10500-ton British armed merchant cruiser Salopian southeast of Greenland. Meanwhile, the Italian torpedo boat Pleiadi sinks the submarine HMS Undaunted off Tripoli. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Bill Thacker military@att.att.com Send submissions for "50 Years Ago" to military-request@att.att.com "[Hess] would not have come to Britain if he believed Hitler had a chance to stage a successful invasion of England in the near future, for he'd then be in the power of those with whom he has evidently fallen out." - unidentified British official