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Subject: 50 Years Ago: Sunday, 7 April, 1940
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From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker)
Sunday, 7 April, 1940

RAF aircraft spot the German invasion fleet bound for Norway.  The
Home Fleet sorties from Scapa Flow to intercept, but is impeded by
a heavy storm.  British destroyers succeed, however, in mining the 
Norwegian coast at three points, and this act is announced to the world.

The Norwegian collier Navarra is torpedoed without warning by a U-boat off 
the Scottish coast; 12 seamen are lost.

Italy and Yugoslavia are reportedly considering closing the Adriatic Sea to
all foreign warships, to prevent  Britain from attempting to enforce its
blockade there.

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