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Sept. 2, 1940: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England. |
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Note the report at top right: "German Pilot Subscribes To The Spitfire Fund" |
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Sept. 2, 1940: Front page of the Evening Express, Liverpool, England. |
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Sept. 2, 1940: Front page of the Birmingham Gazette, Birmingham, England. |
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Note the headline: "Evacuee Ship Torpedoed" |
(The unnamed ship was the Dutch passenger liner Volendam. It was torpedoed by U-60. There was only 1 death, Cabin Steward Gerrit P. Barendregt.) |
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Sept. 2, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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Note the report in columns 5-6: "Hitler Loses 110 Planes in 2 Days: 25 Yesterday" |
(The Air Ministry announced that the Germans lost 85 planes on Aug. 31 and another 25 on Sept. 1. They also announced the loss of 37 aircraft on Saturday and 15 on Sunday. Keeping the "Never Doubt" clause in mind, total German losses were 33 on Aug. 31 and 19 on Sept. 1. Of those 13 were lost in non-combat incidents which the Air Ministry could not have known about. The British on Saturday lost 38 aircraft from Fighter Command with 4 others being total constructive losses and on Sunday lost 9 in combat with 3 others seriously damaged or complete losses.) |
| [See "Never Doubt British Air Claims" in The Daily Mail of Aug. 4, 1940.] |
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Sept. 2, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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Note the photos at top left: "Australian Navy Hits Hard And Often" |
(Referring to the Battle of Cape Spada when HMAS Sydney sank the Italian cruiser Bartolomeo Colleoni.) |
Also note the report in columns 2-3: "Control Of Press Greatly Modified" |
(This was in response to the Australian people opposing the government's attempt to take control of the press, cinema and publishing.) |
Also note the report at bottom right: "Spitfire Fund Grows To £2376" |
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Sept. 2, 1940: Front page of the Daily Telegraph, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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Sept. 2, 1940: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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Sept. 2, 1940: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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Sept. 2, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands. |
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Sept. 2, 1940: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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Note the report at bottom right: "Otto Strasser's Brother Flying to U.S. on Clipper" |
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Sept. 2, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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Sept. 2, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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Sept. 2, 1940: Front page of the Butte Montana Standard, Butte, Montana. |
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Sept. 2, 1940: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California. |
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Sept. 2, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. Zwei britische Zerstörer durch U-boote versenkt. |
(Two British destroyers sunk by U-boat.) |
[They may be trying to claim that HM destroyers Esk and Ivanhoe were sunk by a U-boat, but this was not true.] |
2. Uebers Wochenende 195 englische Maschinen vernichtet. |
(195 English machines destroyed over the weekend.) |
[The propaganda ministry inflated the numbers slightly. The British on Saturday lost 38 aircraft from Fighter Command with 4 others being total constructive losses and on Sunday lost 9 in combat with 3 others seriously damaged or complete losses.] |
3. Bombenwirkung auf Berliner militärische Ziele. |
(Bombing effects on Berlin's "military" targets.) |
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Sept. 2, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Wien-Zentrum Wirtschaftlicher Schicksalsgemeinschaft. |
(Vienna Center for Economic Community Fate.) |
2. Walther Funk bei der Eröffnung der Wiener Herbstmesse durch Baldur v. Schirach. |
(Walther Funk at the opening of the Vienna Autumn Fair by Baldur von Schirach.)
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[Describing the photo at left.] |
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Page published Sept. 2, 2021 |
