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From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker)
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Subject: 50 Years Ago: Saturday, 11 January, 1941
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From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker)
Saturday, 11 January, 1941

Hitler decides that German reinforcements must be sent to aid Italy's
efforts in Libya for "strategic, political, and psychological" reasons.

A new phase of submarine warfare opens in the Atlantic as Axis submarines
begin combined operations with long-range Condor maritime bombers.

Further German air raids on Mediterranean convoys result in damage to the
cruiser HMS Gloucester and the sinking of an escorting destroyer.

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