military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) (08/28/90)
From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) Monday, 26 August, 1940 The Luftwaffe bombs numerous airfields around London and Portsmouth; hardest hit is Debden. Birmingham, Plymouth, and Coventry are hit by night raids. Losses are 31 German to 27 British. London spends the entire night under air raid alert, for the first time in the war. The Irish government announces several bombings of its territory by German aircraft. At sea, German floatplanes and bombers attack merchant shipping off Fraserburgh, Scotland, sinking one large freighter and seriously damaging another. In the Indian ocean, the German disguised raider Pinguin claims its first merchant victim. The parliaments of the Baltic states of Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia ratify their admission into the Soviet Union. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Bill Thacker military@att.att.com Send submissions for "50 Years Ago" to military-request@att.att.com "We cannot expect to have a forty-hour week and pay time-and-a-half for extra hours and have minimum wages and compete with countries such as Russia, Germany, Italy, and Spain, where labor has no voice." - Armand Mat, in a letter to the New York Times