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. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Bill Thacker military@att.att.com Send submissions for "50 Years Ago" to military-request@att.att.com "If a warmonger is a man who advocates that we should immediately send warships and shoot their guns and airplanes and drop their bombs, send them to meet our acknowledged and deadly enemy where he is and defeat him, then count me in." - Rex Stout, author and member of the American Fight for Freedom Committee