military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) (10/25/90)
From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) Friday, 25 October, 1940 A Bf 109 raid on London catches numerous citizens in loaded tram cars. Casualties are heavy. He 111's severely damage Montrose Airfield in Scotland, and 150 bombers hit London by night. The day's air raids also include the first attack on British soil by Italian bombers. In exchange, the RAF bombs Berlin for the twenty-third time. Japan hints to the USSR that they would consider substantial compromises in their treaty demands in exchange for a rapid signing. John L. Lewis, president of the C.I.O., declares his support for Wendell Willkie, warning that Roosevelt will lead the country into war. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Bill Thacker military@att.att.com Send submissions for "50 Years Ago" to military-request@att.att.com "That Japan will find herself confronted across the Pacific by a resentful and powerful United States is inevitable." - Masao Maruyuma, in the newspaper Asahi