military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) (08/02/90)
From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) Friday, 2 August, 1940 British Force H conducts Operation Hurry, a carrier raid on Cagliari, Sardinia by Swordfish bombers from HMS Ark Royal. Meanwhile, the carrier HMS Argus ferries Hurricanes to within flying range of Malta, to replenish the fighter garrison there. Lord Beaverbrook, Minister for Aircraft Production, is added to P.M. Churchill's War Cabinet. The RAF claims that a recent series of air raids has reduced the port facilities at Hamburg to wreckage; Bremen, Wilhelmshaven, and the Kiel Canal are also said to be crippled, along with the military industries of the Ruhr valley. The French Military Court at Clermont-Ferrand condemns General Charles de Gaulle to death. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Bill Thacker military@att.att.com Send submissions for "50 Years Ago" to military-request@att.att.com "The enemy will one day be driven from the soil of France. On that day I will submit myself willingly to the judgement of the people." - Gen. Charles de Gaulle