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August 12, 1940: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England. |
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August 12, 1940: Front page of the Evening Express, Liverpool, England. |
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August 12, 1940: Front page of the Birmingham Gazette, Birmingham, England. |
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August 12, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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August 12, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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August 12, 1940: Front page of the Daily Telegraph, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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August 12, 1940: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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August 12, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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August 12, 1940: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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August 12, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands. |
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August 12, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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August 12, 1940: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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August 12, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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August 12, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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August 12, 1940: Front page of The Kingsport Times, Kingsport, Tennessee. |
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Note the photo at top left: "Plumes Of Death" |
(Nice headline, if it were only true.) |
[See "British Discredit Photo of 5 Falling Nazi Planes" in The Sunday Star of Aug. 11, 1940.] |
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August 12, 1940: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California. |
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August 12, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. Schreckenssonntag für England! |
(Horrible sunday for England.) |
2. 93 Flugzeuge und 8 Sperrballone abgeschossen. |
(93 aircraft and 8 barrage balloons shot down.) |
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August 12, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. 89 britische Flugzeuge abgeschossen. |
(89 British aircraft shot down.) |
2. Weitere Erfolge der Luftwaffe: 8 Sperrballone vernichtet - 17.000 BRT. versenkt. |
(More successes by the Luftwaffe: 8 barrage balloons destroyed - 17,000 GRT sunk.) |
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Page published August 12, 2021 |