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From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker)
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Subject: 50 Years Ago: Thursday, 8 May, 1941
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From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker)


Thursday, 8 May, 1941

The British cruiser HMS Cornwall finds the German disguised raider Pinguin
off the Seychelles and sinks her.  Pinguin's cruise has cost Britain
28 ships totalling 136,550 tons.

Italian air attacks on the Tiger convoy are repulsed by British
carrier-based fighters.

Britain uses radio countermeasures and decoy fires to disrupt a German
bombing attack on the Rolls Royce works at Derby; they are successful, and
most of the German bombs strike outlying farmlands.  The RAF counters with
a 359-plane raid on Hamburg and Bremen.

A Japanese newspaper, the Times Advertiser, calls for an end to hostilities
in China and that country's development as a full member of the East Asia
Co-Prosperity Sphere.

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"The superiority of Japanese arms in China has been as convincing as
China's ability to survive corporal punishment.  Ideas of overcoming this
mastodon of nations must have little more appeal even to the most sanguine
of soldierly minds." - the Japan Times Advertiser