military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) (01/12/91)
From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) Saturday, 11 January, 1941 Hitler decides that German reinforcements must be sent to aid Italy's efforts in Libya for "strategic, political, and psychological" reasons. A new phase of submarine warfare opens in the Atlantic as Axis submarines begin combined operations with long-range Condor maritime bombers. Further German air raids on Mediterranean convoys result in damage to the cruiser HMS Gloucester and the sinking of an escorting destroyer. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Bill Thacker military@att.att.com Send submissions for "50 Years Ago" to military-request@att.att.com "We have a great and a very real interest in English success, but to say that our security rests on her victory is a misstatement." - Alfred M. Landon, Republican candidate for President in 1936