Lex Anteinternet: May 23, 1941. Portents.

Sunday, May 23, 2021

May 23, 1941. Portents.

"Gene Strathman, Virginia (Greteman) Wiese (laying down) and Dorothy (Ehrichs) Kusel"

From: https://www.davidkusel.com/temp20/strathman/strathman.htm

Think of it. Three high school graduates. . . from 1941. .. graduating right into what will soon be the largest war the US has ever participated in.

On that day British destroyers HMS Kashmir and HMS Kelly were sunk by aircraft off of Crete.

HMS Kashmir.

HMS Kelly at Gibraltar.

The Kelly was commanded by Louis Mountbatten, a member of the British Royal Family.

King George II of Greece left Crete for Egypt. He wouldn't remain there, as Egyptian King Farouk's foreign minister favored Italy, in spite of Egypt being effectively occupied by the British, or perhaps because of that, and would go to the UK.

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