military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) (04/29/91)
From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) Wednesday, 30 April, 1941 A combined German-Italian attack against Tobruk, supported by tanks, artillery, and dive bombers, gains nearly two miles in the southwest corner of the Australian perimeter, but the defense is resolute and the penetration is contained. General Paulus has personally approved the attack. Air activity is light; the RAF hits Mannheim and attacks shipping off the Dutch coast. Britain lists the month's shipping losses at 581,000 tons. Over 187,000 tons were lost in Greek ports alone. Civilian casualties for April exceeded 6000 dead, with nearly 7000 wounded. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Bill Thacker military@att.att.com Send submissions for "50 Years Ago" to military-request@att.att.com "Please stop publishing, as news to be taken seriously, dispatches from Berlin, Tokyo and Rome... When we want fiction we'll buy a real novel." - D.W. La Rue, in a letter to the New York Times