World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Monday Sept. 9, 1940
Day 375

Sept. 9, 1940: Front page of the Nottingham Evening Post, Nottingham, England.
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Note the report at top right: "The Nottm. V.C. - Officially Said To Be At Stalag"
(The wife of Lance-Corporal Harry Nicholls, V. C., learned that her husband, thought to have been killed in action, was actually a prisoner of war. Harry survived the war and died in 1975.)


Sept. 9, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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Note the report in column 3: "Nazis Should Say 99!
(Keeping the "Never Doubt" clause in mind, the Air Ministry should say 44. And nine of those were lost in non-combat incidents that the British would have had no knowledge of. They also give the number of British aircraft lost as 22, which was correct. Two others were missing and one was a total constructive loss due to battle damage.)


Sept. 9, 1940: Front page of the Birmingham Gazette, Birmingham, England.
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Note the advertisement at bottom right: "Rise To It Help Sutton to provide another SPITFIRE)


Sept. 9, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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Note the report in columns 2-3: "R.A.F. Beats Off Invasion Threat - Official Statement"
(The German propaganda had completely worked on the British, including Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who believed that an invasion was imminent. However, propaganda was all it was, there never was going to be an invasion.)


Sept. 9, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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Note the report at bottom right: "Record Radio Appeal For Spitfire"


Sept. 9, 1940: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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Sept. 9, 1940: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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Note the report in columns 5-6: "Worst Drought In Victoria's History: Govt. To Help Farmers"


Sept. 9, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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Sept. 9, 1940: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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Sept. 9, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands.
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Sept. 9, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.
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Sept. 9, 1940: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C.
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Note the report in column 5: "Two Bombed Museums Emptied of Treasures"
(At least someone was thinking ahead when they removed the contents of the museums in Aug. 1939.)


Sept. 9, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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(Click below for part one of "Our Country" a twenty-four part series, written by twenty-four different authors, describing what America means to them. Today's piece was written by Stephen Vincent Benet.)


Sept. 9, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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Note that The Port Arthur News was also running the "Our Country" series.


Sept. 9, 1940: Front page of the Butte Montana Standard, Butte, Montana.
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Note the report in column 3: "Phoney Message "Hitler Killed" Is Transmitted"
(Apparently somebody at the weather service having a bit of fun, which officials did not appreciate.)


Sept. 9, 1940: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California.
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Sept. 9, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany.
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1. 9½ Studen Bombardement auf London "Man hatte den Eindrud eines Erdbebens"
(London bombed for 9½ hours "One had the impact of an earthquake"


Sept. 9, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP.
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1. Die Reichsmarschall leitet persönlich den Einsatz.
(The Reichsmarschall directs the operation in person.)
2. Über 1 Million Kilogramm Bomben auf London.
(Over 1 million kilograms of bombs dropped on London.)



   
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