World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Saturday May 18, 1940
Day 261

May 18, 1940: Front page of the Newcastle Journal And North Mail, Newcastle, England.
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May 18, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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May 18, 1940: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England.
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May 18, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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May 18, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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May 18, 1940: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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May 18, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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May 18, 1940: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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May 18, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands.
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May 18, 1940: Front page of the Syracuse Herald-Journal, Syracuse, New York.
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May 18, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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Note the photo at bottom right: "War Over For Mother and Son"
(I am pretty sure that close-up photos of dead bodies is something not shown in U.S. newspapers for many years, but in 1940 it was apparently acceptable. This photo will be on the front page of many U.S. newspapers in the next days.)


May 18, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur Times, Port Arthur, Texas.
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May 18, 1940: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California.
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May 18, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany.
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1. Deutsche Flagge über Antwerpen.
(German flag over Antwerp.)
2. Weiterer Vorstoß tief nach Frankreich hinein.
(Another advance deep into France.)


May 18, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP.
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1. Die deutschen Truppen in Brüssel.
(German troops in Brussels.)
2. Maginotlinie auf 100 km Breite durchbrochen.
(Over 100 km hole in the Maginot Line.)



   
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