[soc.history] 50 Years Ago: Thursday, 24 April, 1941

military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) (04/23/91)

From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker)


Thursday, 24 April, 1941

Hoping for a "second Dunkirk," Luftwaffe bombers harass ships
participating in Operation Demon, the evacuation of Commonwealth forces 
from Greece.  Few ships are sunk, however, thanks in part to heavy cloud
cover.

Hitler meets in Austria with Hungarian leader Admiral Horthy.  Horthy
offers Hungarian participation in Operation Barbarossa in exchange for
large territorial concessions in the Balkans.

A German attack on the pass of Thermopylae meets with success, and
the defenders are forced to retire by night to another position at 
Thebes.  The Empire forces are assisted on the defense by Greek troops 
who have refused to surrender.

German paratroops occupy the isles of Limnos, Thasos, and Samothrace
in the Aegean.

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