military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) (11/06/90)
From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) Monday, 4 November, 1940 RAF aircraft based in Crete bomb the Italian cities of Bari and Brindisi. The Greek counterattack reaches the Korce-Peratia road and leaves the Italian 3rd Alpini division shattered. Rumors fly of an impending Axis ultimatum to Turkey. Reports place German troop trains on the move into Bulgaria, and state that Turkey is mobilizing all men aged 20-40. Spain establishes an administration in the International Zone of Tangier, which it occupied in June. Spanish control over the region is thus cemented. Marshal Petain replies to a letter from President Roosevelt, stating that France will not declare war on Britain or surrender her fleet to the Axis, but adding that the status of the US-built warplanes now in French Martinique is up to the German-French Armistice Commission. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Bill Thacker military@att.att.com Send submissions for "50 Years Ago" to military-request@att.att.com "Henceforth, France will protect herself from foreign interference and will direct her action solely on her own responsibility." - Vice Premier Laval