military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) (03/21/91)
From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) Friday, 21 March, 1941 Concluding a 15-week siege, the Italian garrison at Jarabub, Libya surrenders to British and Australian troops. 800 Italians are captured. Command of Italian troops in North Africa is handed to General Gariboldi. The former commander, General Graziani, had asked a month ago to be relieved. The Luftwaffe strikes at Plymouth with 20,000 incendiary bombs. Damage is heaviest in the shopping and residential districts. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Bill Thacker military@att.att.com Send submissions for "50 Years Ago" to military-request@att.att.com "The Soviet government is merely continuing the ruthless extermination of the Polish population begun by the Czarist governments after the partitions of Poland in 1772, 1793, and 1795." - Bronislaw Gliwa, in a letter to the New York Times