| October 30th
October 30th
1940 - British destroyers Harvester and Highlander sink German submarine U32.
1940 - British Bomber Command is given its first directive sanctioning area-bombing.
1941 - A German submarine torpedoes American fleet oiler Salinas off the American east coast. The ship is able to limp to a port.
1944 - 110 British bombers attack German gun and troop positions on Walcheren island.
1944 - (evening) 905 British bombers attack Cologne, Germany.
1945 - In Crete, the court at Heraklion sentences one woman to death, one woman to life in prison, lighter penalties on another man and woman, and acquits another man, all on charges of collaboration and responsibility for deaths of 35 Cretans. Following announcement of the sentences, 2000 storm the building, killing all five.
__________________ Spidge,
------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html
"You were given the choice between war and dishonor.
You chose dishonor and you will have war."
(Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.)
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