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July 2, 1940: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England. |
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Note the headline and report in column 5: "Italy Has Now Lost 13 Submarines" |
(While British forces had done a very good job of despatching Italian submarines to the depths, Italy had lost only 9 submarines since they entered the war. Another boat was lost when it was wrecked in a non-combat incident.) |
Also note the report in column 6: "New Balbo Story" |
(The first reports that Marshal Italo Balbo had not been shot down in combat with British aircraft, but had been shot down by Italian anti-aircraft guns. Which was true.) |
| [Also see "Hero Rests After Mysterious Death" in the Biddeford Daily Journal of July 13, 1940.] |
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July 2, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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Note the report in column 5: "Price Of Peas To Be Controlled" |
(My mother has always had a saying, "What does that have to do with the price of peas in China?" I never could answer that, subsequently, I did not get whatever it was that I wanted.) |
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July 2, 1940: Front page of the Nottingham Evening Post, Nottingham, England. |
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July 2, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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July 2, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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July 2, 1940: Front page of the Daily Telegraph, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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July 2, 1940: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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July 2, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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July 2, 1940: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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July 2, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands. |
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July 2, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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July 2, 1940: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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July 2, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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Note the report in column 5: "3 Children Slay Their Mean Dad" |
(This guy must have been a true monster, they bound his hands and feet, took him out into the desert and left him to die of thirst, hunger and heat. What could be more monstrous than that?) |
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July 2, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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Note the report at bottom right: "A Boy And His Dog..." |
(A good story about a boy, his dog and the mayor who helped them.) |
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July 2, 1940: Front page of The Brainerd Daily Dispatch, Brainerd, Minnesota. |
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July 2, 1940: Front page of the San Mateo Times, San Mateo, California. |
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Note the headline: "British Bomb Nazi Navy Base - Kiel Badly Damaged, Battleship Hit" |
(The report states that Scharnhorst had been hit by seven bombs, which was not true. In official British papers from the time, it was their belief that Scharnhorst had been damaged, however it was a case of misidentification as Scharnhorst was not damaged, it was actually Prinz Eugen that was hit. Prinz Eugen was still being fitted out and was not yet in commission. The damage was described as slight and the commissioning was delayed for a month. As an interesting side note, it was during this raid that the British used a one-ton bomb, which was the largest weapon delivered so far during the war. It was supposed to hit the ships, but a faulty release mechanism in the Hampden bomber caused the bomb to be dropped in a non-military area.) |
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July 2, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. Erfolgreiche bewaffnete Aufklärung über Kanal. |
(Successful armed reconnaissance over the Channel.) |
2. Britische Kanalinseln besetzt / Zahlreiche Abschüsse. |
(British Channel Islands Occupied / Many killed.) |
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July 2, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Große Erfolge unserer U-Boote |
(Great success of our U-Boats.) |
2. Kreuzer der Orion Klasse torpediert / Kapitänleutnant Prien versenkte 51.086 BRT. |
(Cruiser of the Orion class torpedoed / Kapitänleutnant Prien sank 51,086 BRT.) |
(The report is correct in the respect that Günther Prien had sunk over 50,000 tons of shipping, including the Arandora Star, which was carrying German and Italian civilian internees. Over 800 people died in the sinking. However, the claim of an Orion class cruiser being sunk was not true.) |
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Page published July 2, 2021 |