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From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker)
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Subject: 50 Years Ago:
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From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker)
Saturday, 28 June, 1941

Fighting continues for the citadel at Brest-Litovsk, where a Russian
garrison has held out for nearly a week.  German bombers attack the
fortress with 1800-kg bombs.

The second phase of the double encirclement of the Bialystok pocket is
concluded when two pincers meet at Minsk, 200 miles within the USSR.
Three Soviet armies, the bulk of the defense in the north center of 
the front, are trapped within.  Rapid progress continues along the front,
and Finnish troops attack across the 1940 armistice border.

Some 3800 Lithuanian Jews are killed in a pogrom in Kaunas.

Albania, an Italian protectorate, declares war on the Soviet Union.

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