April 26th, 1941 (SATURDAY)
UNITED KINGDOM: RAF Bomber Command: 2 Group: Six aircraft of 21 Sqn. on anti-shipping strike attack targets near Schiemonikoog and Vlieland. A convoy of three 4,000-ton ships, eight smaller ships and three flak ships. Two aircraft and their crews are lost for one large ships damaged.German columns advancing in the west of Greece have reached Missolonghi.
At night troops of the armoured brigade were embarked from Athens beaches and 8000 troops including the 16th and 17th Brigades from Kalamata. (Anthony Staunton)
NORTH AFRICA: Rommel's forces crossed the Egyptian border today, with three motorised columns of Italian troops breaking through to the thinly defended "Hellfire Pass" at Halfaya.
300 miles to the west, the garrison at Tobruk has withstood two more assaults by
Rommel's tanks and taken over 2,000 prisoners.
EAST AFRICA: Dessie in East Africa falls to British
Forces with 8,000 Italian prisoners.
U.S.A.: The U.S. Neutrality Patrol is extended southward to 26.00S latitude. A carrier task group, Task Group 2 comprised of the aircraft carrier USS Wasp (CV-7), the heavy cruiser USS Quincy (CA-39) and the destroyers USS Livermore (DD-429) and USS Kearny (DD-432), gets underway for Bermuda as part of the patrol.