military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) (10/05/90)
From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) Saturday, 5 October, 1940 German fighter-bombers again fail to slip past the RAF fighter defenses. Numerous raids against southeastern English airfields and London are turned away, and a large number of the attackers jettison their bombloads over Hastings. The Luftwaffe decides to halt daylight bombing of England, though night raids will be continued. The London government opens a new 1-mile tunnel between Bethnal Green and Liverpool Street to serve as a bomb shelter. The tunnel's capacity is 4000 people. United States Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox denounces the recently- signed Tripartite Pact and begins mobilizing naval reserves. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Bill Thacker military@att.att.com Send submissions for "50 Years Ago" to military-request@att.att.com "Modern wars are waged by nations. The object of war is to bring peace through victory for your side. If this can be obtained by attack on the members of a civil community who are contributing directly or indirectly to the aid of the men with rifles at the front - then in air warfare such an objective is truly military." - Maj. Gen. Stephen O. Fuqua, U.S.A., Ret.