military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) (07/21/90)
From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) Sunday, 21 July, 1940 Hitler orders his General Staff to prepare plans for a 1941 invasion of the USSR. The Luftwaffe bombs several sites in Britain, and attacks Channel shipping. British aircraft raid Tobruk harbor and Italian planes attack Malta. Rumania cedes the region of South Dobrudja to Bulgaria. The newly-elected communist governments of the Baltic states vote for a political union with the USSR; Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia are admitted as constituent republics. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Bill Thacker military@att.att.com Send submissions for "50 Years Ago" to military-request@att.att.com "If there is danger of losing our civil liberties, let us choose to lose them under an American President rather than under a German dictator... Either we prepare to defend ourselves and our way of life, and prepare with every resource in our power, or we lose all that we have in the way of civil liberties." - Herman S. Rosenbaum, in a letter to the New York Times.