World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Thursday June 6, 1940
Day 280

June 6, 1940: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England.
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June 6, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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June 6, 1940: Front page of the Nottingham Evening Post, Nottingham, England.
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June 6, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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June 6, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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June 6, 1940: Front page of the Daily Telegraph, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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June 6, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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June 6, 1940: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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June 6, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands.
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June 6, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.
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Note the report in column 3: "Berlin Radio Asserts Allies Killed 72 Nazis"


June 6, 1940: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C.
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June 6, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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June 6, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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June 6, 1940: Front page of The Escanaba Daily Press, Escanaba, Michigan.
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June 6, 1940: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California.
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Note the report in column 2: "McMillan Bribery Charge Dismissed by Judge Stockton"


June 6, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP.
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1. Der neue Angriff im Westen rollt.
(The new attack in the west is rolling.)
2. Weygand=Linie bereits durchbrochen.
(Weygand Line already broken.)



   
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