military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) (05/08/91)
From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) Thursday, 8 May, 1941 The British cruiser HMS Cornwall finds the German disguised raider Pinguin off the Seychelles and sinks her. Pinguin's cruise has cost Britain 28 ships totalling 136,550 tons. Italian air attacks on the Tiger convoy are repulsed by British carrier-based fighters. Britain uses radio countermeasures and decoy fires to disrupt a German bombing attack on the Rolls Royce works at Derby; they are successful, and most of the German bombs strike outlying farmlands. The RAF counters with a 359-plane raid on Hamburg and Bremen. A Japanese newspaper, the Times Advertiser, calls for an end to hostilities in China and that country's development as a full member of the East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Bill Thacker military@att.att.com Send submissions for "50 Years Ago" to military-request@att.att.com "The superiority of Japanese arms in China has been as convincing as China's ability to survive corporal punishment. Ideas of overcoming this mastodon of nations must have little more appeal even to the most sanguine of soldierly minds." - the Japan Times Advertiser