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From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker)
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Subject: 50 Years Ago: Thursday, 4 July, 1940
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From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker)
Thursday, 4 July, 1940

Luftwaffe Stukas, together with German torpedo boats, attack a convoy south
of Portland; 5 convoy vessels are sunk.

Italian troops occupy Kassala and Galabat in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan.  Air
raids are staged on Malta and Alexandria.  Only light border defenses
oppose the Italian advance from Abyssinia.

A new Rumanian cabinet is formed under Prime Minister Gigurtu.  Included
are two leaders of the once-outlawed Iron Guard.

The French battlecruiser Strasbourg, together with the aircraft carrier
Commandant Teste and several destroyers, having fled Mers-el-Kebir, arrive
at Toulon harbor.

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"I leave the judgement of our actions with confidence to Parliament.  I
leave it to the nation and I leave it to the United States.  I leave it to
the world and to history." - Winston Churchill, on the Mers-el-Kebir
affair