military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) (01/07/91)
From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) Thursday, 2 January, 1941 The Luftwaffe strikes at Cardiff with 100 bombers, starting many fires and damaging Llandaff Cathedral. Stray planes also mistakenly bomb the Dublin vicinity in neutral Ireland. RAF bombers respond with a three-hour raid on Bremen. In Albania, fighting is heavy around Klisura and Tepeleni. Foreign observers report the use of German dive bombers in support of Italian forces. President Roosevelt announces a new shipbuilding program. Some 200 standardized freighters of 7500 tons are to be constructed, using novel mass-production techniques. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Bill Thacker military@att.att.com Send submissions for "50 Years Ago" to military-request@att.att.com "Those bombs are English or they are imaginary. Our fliers have not and will not be sent to Ireland." - German press statement