The 9th Cavalry at Camp Funston, Kansas. May 28, 1941. Camp Funston is adjacent to Ft. Riley, and had been a major training base during World War One. It had been reopened, as a tent city at this time, for training in the run up to World War Two. The 9th Cavalry was one of two cavalry regiments in the U.S. Army whose enlisted men were all African Americans, the service still being segregated at this time.
The day after the successful Royal Navy sinking of the Bismarck, the news was less encouraging.
On this day in 1941, the British commenced evacuating Crete. The British also lost the HMS Mashona off the coast of Galway in a Luftwaffe bomber attack. The destroyer was a very new British vessel, having only entered service in 1939.
HMS Mashona.
French representatives signed the Paris Protocols allowing the Germans certain rights, including the right to cross Syria, in exchange for French prisoners of war being repatriated. The agreement was never ratified by the French government.
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