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From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker)
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Subject: 50 Years Ago: Wednesday, 25 June, 1941
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From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker)
Wednesday, 25 June, 1941

Sweden, under pressure from Berlin, agrees to allow passage of a German
division by rail from Norway to Finland.

Soviet aircraft bomb Finland following a proclamation condemning Finland
and Rumania for allowing Germany to use their territories.  Finnish
fighters and AA guns down 26 of the attacking bombers.

Pockets begin to form as German spearheads converge.  The Soviet 3rd, 4th,
and 10th Armies are in danger near Bialystok, and two deeper spearheads 
aim at Minsk.

Churchill warns the House of Commons that the U-boat campaign is exacting 
a critical toll on British shipping.

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numbers and make the German people taste and gulp each month a sharper
dose of the miseries they have inflicted upon mankind." - Winston Churchill