military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) (06/02/90)
Monday, 3 June, 1940 A major drive against the Dunkirk sector reduces the perimeter there to a line about two miles from the coast. Resistance within the pocket nears an end. The Luftwaffe launches Operation Paula, a 200-bomber raid on Paris airfields, aircraft factories, and anti-aircraft sites. 20 bombers are lost, against 33 French fighters, and there are numerous civilian casualties. Parisians demand the retaliatory bombing of Berlin. Germany warns that British agents intend to create a number of incidents in the hope of arousing anti-German sentiment in the Americas. Among the alleged plots are a scheme to sabotage the Panama Canal, and attempts to sink the passenger liners SS Manhattan and SS President Roosevelt. According to Berlin, these attacks will be blamed on Germany. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Bill Thacker military@cbnews.att.com Send submissions for "50 Years Ago" to military-request@att.att.com "America must choose and choose quickly, for no time can be lost. The monster is at our gates. Spiritually, America is in the war. Why not actively ?" - Rear Admiral Yates Stirling