military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) (04/06/91)
Saturday, 5 April, 1941 Addis Ababa, capital of Italian East Africa, falls to Commonwealth troops. Yugoslavia and the USSR sign a mutual Friendship and Non-Aggression Pact. Japan, with only a month's supply of rubber, declares that a Japanese dealers' association of will control all rubber exports from Indochina, Thailand, and the Dutch East Indies. Italian forces advancing along the Libyan coast occupy Barce, while elements of the Gemran 5th Light Division reach Tengeder, south of Mechili. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Bill Thacker military@att.att.com Send submissions for "50 Years Ago" to military-request@att.att.com "Is it conceivable that the American people will gladly appropriate seven billion dollars to aid England and then allow German U-boats to send it to the bottom of the sea ?" - William Gueren, in a letter to the NY Times