military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) (04/29/91)
From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) Tuesday, 29 April, 1941 Indian forces begin to assemble for an attack on Amba Alagi in Abyssinia. As Rashid Ali warns Britain to land no more troops in Iraq, Iraqi forces surround the British base at Habbaniyah and sabotage oil pipelines leaving the country. Ali had previously suggested that British civilians should be evacuated from Baghdad to Habbaniyah; 230 women and children there are now declared hostages. German aircraft raid Malta, while the RAF strikes at Benghazi. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Bill Thacker military@att.att.com Send submissions for "50 Years Ago" to military-request@att.att.com "I understand from the press that Colonel Lindbergh is returning his commission to the Secretary of War. That leads me to wonder whether he is returning his decoration to Mr. Hitler." - Stephen Early, Presidential Press Secretary (Lindbergh had received the Order of the German Eagle from Marshal Goering in 1936)