military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) (08/30/90)
From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) Friday, 30 August, 1940 Luftwaffe bombings concentrate on airfields in Kent; Biggen Hill and Detling are hit especially hard. Secondary raids result in severe damage to the Vauxhall works at Luton. Germany loses 24 aircraft, against 20 British. Britain reports the recovery from a downed German bomber of a body "big enough to be Goering." Identification is not possible due to facial burns. Berlin spokesmen state that Reichsmarschal Goering is in the best of health. Hitler announces that he will make the final decision on Operation Sea Lion on 10 September. The Balkan conference at Vienna abides by a German-imposed settlement, under which Rumania will surrender northern Transylvania to Hungary. Germany reportedly has promised to intervene in the event of a Soviet invasion of Rumania. The USSR announces that its troops are conducting practice offensive maneuvers in an undisclosed western military district, and the that Red Fleet is likewise engaged in simulations. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Bill Thacker military@att.att.com Send submissions for "50 Years Ago" to military-request@att.att.com "This is a victory of reason. This is a victory of Axis policy which reveals to the world its true constructive character, its clarifying, its civilizing spirit." - Virginio Gayda