military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) (12/06/90)
From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) Friday, 6 December, 1940 Greek troops make further advances in the Pindus Mountains, and gain important positions around Klisura. In Macedonia, Greeks close in on Elbasan. Marshal Badoglio, Italian Commander in Chief, resigns his position. He is replaced by General Count Ugo Cavallero. The United States offers credits to Spain, to be used for the purchase of gasoline, rubber, meat, wheat, and cotton. The credits are based on the condition that none of these purchases may be sent to Germany. The US National Defense Advisory Committee announces that new warships are being produced at the rate of one every 12 days. The application of mass-production techniques to ships' subassemblies is credited with speeding the construction process. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Bill Thacker military@att.att.com Send submissions for "50 Years Ago" to military-request@att.att.com "Conflict between the United States and Japan merely would begin a chain of wars. I, personally, know no issue between them impossible of peaceful solution." - Japanese Ambassador-Designate Nomura