military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) (08/28/90)
From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) Sunday, 25 August, 1940 German aircraft stage daylight raids over Portsmouth, Portland, and Warmwell, and launch a 150-plane night attack on Birmingham. The RAF retaliates with its first night bombing of Berlin; many of the 81 aircraft, fail to find Berlin, but those which do cause small damage in the city center. The day's losses are 20 German versus 16 British aircraft. The British garrisons of Shanghai and Tientsin are withdrawn for service elsewhere. Hungary requests direct German mediation of her negotiations with Rumania. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Bill Thacker military@att.att.com Send submissions for "50 Years Ago" to military-request@att.att.com "The attitude of wanting to send additional food to the people of France and Belgium to help them is sentimentally fine, but when one stops to consider the practical results of such an effort, it is obvious that it would amount only to sending food supplies to Germany." - Selden Bacon, in a letter to the New York Times