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May 5, 1940: Front page of The People, London, England. |
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May 5, 1940: Front page of the Sunday Telegram, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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May 5, 1940: Front page of The Sunday Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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May 5, 1940: Front page of The Sunday Star, Washington, D.C. |
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Note the report at top left: "Planes Blast 9 British Warships, Sinking Three, Germans Declare" |
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(The Germans "officially" reported that they had sunk a battleship, cruiser and damaged nine transports. This report must have terrified thousands of British people, who were now wondering if their loved ones were dead or alive. [Reports were not top headlines and were less detailed in the British newspapers, but they were there.] However, once again, the Germans boast, was overblown. The Luftwaffe had made concentrated attacks on the British ships, and did in fact sink two destroyers, HMS Afridi and the French destroyer Bison. They also sank an anti-submarine trawler HMT Gaul, but no battleship, cruiser or transport had been hit or damaged. The German naval staff officers had a much different attitude toward the reports of their pilots. They wrote; "..reports to date do not yet fully confirm the sinking of a battleship. Despite various statements from witnesses it still seems possible that a cruiser or even a large destroyer has been mistaken for a battleship." It was not the German naval staff who made statements to the press, that came from the Propaganda Ministry.) |
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May 5, 1940: Front page of The Kingsport Times, Kingsport, Tennessee. |
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May 5, 1940: Front page of the Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada. |
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Note the report in column 1: "America Tightens Hawaii Base Rule" |
Also note the report in column 2: "Ark of Juneau Declared Unsafe By Seattle Court" |
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May 5, 1940: Front page of the Butte Montana Standard, Butte, Montana. |
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May 5, 1940: Front page of The Hammond Times, Hammond, Indiana. |
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May 5, 1940: Front page of the Oakland Tribune, Oakland, California. |
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May 5, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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May 5, 1940: Front page of The Escanaba Daily Press, Escanaba, Michigan. |
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May 5, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Die fliehende britische Flotte schwer getroffen. |
(The British fleet was badly hit.) |
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Page published May 5, 2021 |
