military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) (02/06/91)
From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) Thursday, 6 February, 1941 Australian infantry enters Benghazi as Italian resistance in Cyrenaica disappears. Desperate Italian attacks against the blocking force at Beda Fomm fail to achieve a breakout. General Bergonzoli and six other generals are captured. Hitler informs General Erwin Rommel that he is to command the German forces about to be sent to North Africa. The 5th Light division has been detailed for transfer to Libya immediately, with the 15th Panzer slated to follow. Former New Hampshire Governor John Winant is appointed US Ambassador to Britain. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Bill Thacker military@att.att.com Send submissions for "50 Years Ago" to military-request@att.att.com "How a country with so much of its man power in military service, eating its head off, and not producing, with a blockade which pinches, and a partner crying for more, can make a four-year plan fill the insatiable maw of war -- this must tax even German ingenuity." - Adm. William V. Pratt, USN, Ret.