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June 8, 1940: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England. |
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June 8, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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June 8, 1940: Front page of the Nottingham Evening Post, Nottingham, England. |
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June 8, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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June 8, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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June 8, 1940: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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June 8, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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Note the report at bottom center: "Hun Warfare U-Boat Crew's Inhumanity" |
(This report was true. The unnamed ship was SS Sheaf Mead, which was sunk by U-37 and Kapitänleutnant Victor Oehrn. Details of this attack were used against Großadmiral Karl Dönitz at his trial at Nürnberg in 1946.) |
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June 8, 1940: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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June 8, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands. |
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June 8, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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June 8, 1940: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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June 8, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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Note the report in column 6: "New Rabies Outbreak Basis Of Warning By Health Officials" |
Also note the report in column 8: "Death Decreed By France For 5 Spies" |
Also note the report in column 4: "U.S. Admiral Dies" |
(Announcing the death of Admiral Hugh Rodman.) |
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June 8, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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Note the report at bottom left: "A Fish Story! - 28 Trout Leap Into Boat Of Local Boy Scout At Camp" |
(As Mr. Ripley would have said, believe it or not.) |
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June 8, 1940: Front page of the Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada. |
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Note the report in column 2: "Ark of Juneau Continues Trip To Alaska City" |
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June 8, 1940: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California. |
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June 8, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. Weiter erfolgreiches Fortschreiten der deutschen Operationen in Frankreich. |
(German operations in France advancing successfully.) |
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June 8, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Weygand-Linie auf ganzer Front durchbrochen. |
(Weygand line broken on all fronts.)
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Page published June 8, 2021 |