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To: marcos who wrote (21732)10/15/1998 5:04:00 PM
From: Eashoa' M'sheekha  Respond to of 116764
 
" ah,the good old days."......weeeeell........

Joseph Stalin
1879 -
1953

Soviet Dictator and Commander in Chief of the Red Army. Having
drastically reduced the effectiveness of the Red Army by executing most of
its more able commanders shortly before the war, Stalin tried in vain to stall
the German invasion of the USSR by placating Hitler in any way possible.

September 1st 1939 - Germany invades Poland.

September 3rd -1939 - Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand declare war on Germany.

September 10th 1939 - Canada declares war on Germany.

September 17th 1939 - Soviet Union invades eastern Poland.

September 27th 1939 - Surrender of Warsaw.

May 26th ------1940 - Evacuation of British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk.

June 10th -----1940 - Italy declares war on Britain and France.

July 10th -----1940 - Start of Battle of Britain.

September 27th 1940 - Germany, Italy and Japan sign Tripartite Pact.

.............................1941...

April 13th Soviets and Japanese sign neutrality pact.

June 22nd Operation Barbarossa - Germany invades Soviet Union.

November 25th - Germans attack Moscow.
December 5th - Germans halt attack on Moscow.
December 7th - Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour.
December 7th - Japanese declare war on USA.
December 8th - Allies (except Soviets) declare war on Japan.
December 11th - Germany declares war on USA.
December 25th - Japanese capture Hong Kong. (merry x-mas)

And the rest is in fact " History ".

As maybe this discussion should be now?The " good old days " of...

Gold Price Monitoring?...yuk yuk yuk......



To: marcos who wrote (21732)10/15/1998 5:05:00 PM
From: Mark Bartlett  Respond to of 116764
 
Marcos,

<<We were British then, MB - it was the Royal Canadian Air Force, the Royal New Zealand Air Force, etc. ... We were all one, all the pink bits on the map.>>

Technically correct - but all too often forgotten that the sacrifices were shared by many people from all over the globe.

MB