military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) (09/02/90)
From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) Sunday, 1 September, 1940 RAF airfields in southeast Britain are again the target of German bombing. Biggin Hill, already heavily damaged, takes further hits. British bombers raid Munich and Turin, aiming for the BMW and Fiat works, respectively. Italian forces capture Buna, in northeastern Kenya. Italy also creates a submarine command in Bordeaux. Riots break out in Transylvania, in protest over the cession of part of that province by Rumania to Hungary. The German consulate in Brasov is occupied and vandalized, and Rumanian peasants armed with pitchforks are said to be prepared to fight against occupying forces. President Roosevelt calls up over 60,000 National Guardsmen in 26 units, mostly coastal defense forces. Under the terms of the newly-passed National Guard Act, the troops will serve one year of Federal duty. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Bill Thacker military@att.att.com Send submissions for "50 Years Ago" to military-request@att.att.com "Wars are not won by waiting for the enemy to attack. They are won through the fullest possible mobilization of a nation's resources; through suitable alliances, and through well-tined and well-planned offensive action. "Hemisphere defense" and "all aim short of war" will not defend America." - Max Schnitzer, in a letter to the New York Times