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To: Homer_J_Simpson

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1939/nov39/f06nov39.htm

French fighters best Germans
Monday, November 6, 1939 www.onwar.com

On the Western Front... Nine French Hawk fighters shoot down 4 out of 27 German Me109 fighters over the Saar.

In Norway... The American cargo ship, City of Flint, is returned to her captain, Joseph H. Gainard in Haugesund. Since October 9th, the ship has journeyed under the command of a German prize crew from the Deutschland.

In Moscow... In a speech, Molotov says that the Soviet Union is committed to a policy of peace and blames the war on the forces of capitalism. Meanwhile, the Communist International issues a manifesto in which the German Government is classed with those of Britain and France as being hostile to the workers.


3 posted on 11/06/2009 5:35:44 AM PST by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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To: abb

Looks like the Hawk is a Curtiss P-36; British designation was the Mohawk. More here: http://www.military-aircraft.org.uk/ww2-fighter-planes/curtiss-p-36-hawk.htm


4 posted on 11/06/2009 7:25:09 AM PST by PAR35
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To: abb
In Moscow... In a speech, Molotov says that the Soviet Union is committed to a policy of peace and blames the war on the forces of capitalism. Meanwhile, the Communist International issues a manifesto in which the German Government is classed with those of Britain and France as being hostile to the workers.

Tomorrow's lead.

On the Western Front... Nine French Hawk fighters shoot down 4 out of 27 German Me109 fighters over the Saar.

Tomorrow's second lead.

9 posted on 11/06/2009 9:51:33 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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