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From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker)
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Subject: 50 Years Ago: Thursday, 2 January, 1941
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From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker)
Thursday, 2 January, 1941

The Luftwaffe strikes at Cardiff with 100 bombers, starting many 
fires and damaging Llandaff Cathedral.  Stray planes also mistakenly
bomb the Dublin vicinity in neutral Ireland. RAF bombers respond 
with a three-hour raid on Bremen.

In Albania, fighting is heavy around Klisura and Tepeleni.  Foreign
observers report the use of German dive bombers in support of Italian
forces.

President Roosevelt announces a new shipbuilding program.  Some
200 standardized freighters of 7500 tons are to be constructed, 
using novel mass-production techniques.

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"Those bombs are English or they are imaginary.  Our fliers have not 
and will not be sent to Ireland." - German press statement