military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) (11/07/90)
From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) Wednesday, 6 November, 1940 Greek troops surround Koritza and begin an artillery bombardment of that Italian base. They claim 3000-5000 Italian troops cut off in the mountains near Koritza. A flotilla of 7 German torpedo boats conducts a night sweep toward the Scottish coast, but the operation is cancelled when the T.6 strikes a mine and sinks. The Luftwaffe bombs Southampton by daylight, and London at night; the latter raid includes 190 planes. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Bill Thacker military@att.att.com Send submissions for "50 Years Ago" to military-request@att.att.com "Any way one looks at the map, all this can have only one meaning: with Germany entrenched in Scandanavia and Japan signed up with the Axis, once the Black Sea goes Russia will be neatly tied up, encircled by the well-spun web of her supposed Nazi friend." - Admiral William V. Pratt, USN, Retired