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From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker)
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Subject: 50 Years Ago: Saturday, 5 October, 1940
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From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker)
Saturday, 5 October, 1940

German fighter-bombers again fail to slip past the RAF fighter defenses.
Numerous raids against southeastern English airfields and London are
turned away, and a large number of the attackers jettison their bombloads
over Hastings.  The Luftwaffe decides to halt daylight bombing of England,
though night raids will be continued.

The London government opens a new 1-mile tunnel between Bethnal Green
and Liverpool Street to serve as a bomb shelter.  The tunnel's capacity
is 4000 people.

United States Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox denounces the recently-
signed Tripartite Pact and begins mobilizing naval reserves.

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"Modern wars are waged by nations.  The object of war is to bring peace
through victory for your side.  If this can be obtained by attack on the
members of a civil community who are contributing directly or indirectly to
the aid of the men with rifles at the front - then in air warfare such an
objective is truly military." - Maj. Gen. Stephen O. Fuqua, U.S.A., Ret.