World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Friday, February 9, 1940
Day 162

February 9, 1940: Front page of The Midland Daily Telegraph, Coventry, England.
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February 9, 1940: Front page of the Derby Evening Telegraph, Derby, England.
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February 9, 1940: Front page of the Evening Telegraph and Post, Dundee, Scotland.
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February 9, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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February 9, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Scotland.
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February 9, 1940: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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February 9, 1940: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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February 9, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands.
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February 9, 1940: Front page of The Vidette-Messenger, Valparaiso, Indiana.
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February 9, 1940: Front page of The Helena Independent, Helena, Montana.
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February 9, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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February 9, 1940: Front page of The Lowell Sun, Lowell, Massachusetts.
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February 9, 1940: Front page of the Teltower Kriesblatt, Teltow, Germany.
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1. 409 Schiffe mit 1.5 Millionen BRT seit Kriegsbeginn.
(409 ships totaling 15 million tons sunk since the beginning of the war.)
2. Französischer Jäger beschießt wehrlosen Deutschen
(French patrol shoots defenseless Germans.)


February 9, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany.
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1. 79 364 408 Reichsdeutsche gezählt.
(79,364,408 Germans counted in the Reich.
2. Allgemein Rückgang des Frauenüberschusses.
(General decline in the excess of females.)



   
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