military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) (04/26/91)
From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) Monday, 28 April, 1941 Greek funds and possessions in the United States are frozen. Despite the presence of General Paulus, forward elements of German troops capture Sollum, in Egypt. In Greece, German troops break into Kalamata, but are defeated by the Allied troops awaiting evacuation there. The boarding is delayed, and many men are left behind when the last ships leave after dark. British losses in the Greek campaign have been 900 dead, 1200 wounded, and 1612 missing. Moreover, about 9000 troops were captured. Germany has lost 1518 dead and 3360 wounded. Colonel Lindbergh resigns his Army Air Corps Reserve commission, citing slurs made against him by President Roosevelt. The US Supreme Court rules that Negroes are entitled to the same first-class train service as white passengers. The suit was filed by US Representative Arthur Mitchell of Chicago, the nation's only Negro Congressman, who was forcibly moved from a Pullman coach to a 2nd-class Negro car near Arkansas. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Bill Thacker military@att.att.com Send submissions for "50 Years Ago" to military-request@att.att.com "The have more wealth, more technical resources and they make more steel than the whole of the rest of the world put together. They are determined that the cause of freedom shall not be trampled on nor the tide of world progress turned backward by the criminal dictators." - Winston Churchill