military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) (03/18/91)
From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) Tuesday, 18 March, 1941 General Erwin Rommel, commanding German troops in North Africa, is denied permission to launch an offensive in Libya by the end of May. Spain officially annexes the International Zone of Tangier. Ethiopian tribesmen besiege the Italian camp at Debra Marcos. Anthony Eden, British Foreign Secretary, meets on Cyprus with a Turkish delegation. Walking in Times Square, German agent Lido is struck dead by a taxicab. In Lido's baggage at the Hotel Taft, FBI agents find a report on the defenses of Pearl Harbor and Hickam Field... "that will be interesting to our ......(Japanese) friends" Reporter: Bob Beville (rbeville%tekig5.pen.tek.com@RELAY.CS.NET) -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Bill Thacker military@att.att.com Send submissions for "50 Years Ago" to military-request@att.att.com "And the day will come when the British Empire and the United States will share together the solemn but splendid duties which are the crown of victory." - Winston Churchill