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Sept. 18, 1940: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England. |
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Note the report in columns 7-8: "Italian Destroyer Bombed and Sunk" |
(In fact two Italian destroyers were lost. Borea was bombed in Benghazi harbor by Swordfish aircraft of 815 Squadron FAA and Aquilone hit a mine laid by Swordfish aircraft of 819 Squadron FAA both from HMS Illustrious.) |
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Sept. 18, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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Sept. 18, 1940: Front page of the Birmingham Gazette, Birmingham, England. |
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Sept. 18, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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Sept. 18, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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Sept. 18, 1940: Front page of the Daily Telegraph, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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Sept. 18, 1940: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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Note the headline: "Channel Storms Hinder Invasion" |
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Sept. 18, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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Sept. 18, 1940: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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Sept. 18, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands. |
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Sept. 18, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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Sept. 18, 1940: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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Sept. 18, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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(Click below for part nine 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 Gladys Hasty Carroll.) |
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Sept. 18, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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Sept. 18, 1940: Front page of the Butte Montana Standard, Butte, Montana. |
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Sept. 18, 1940: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California. |
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Sept. 18, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. Sturmwinde vergrößern Londons Brände. |
(Storm winds increase London's fires.) |
2. Vergeltungsflüge mit steigender Heftigkeit fortgesetzt. |
(Retaliation flights continued with increased violence.) |
3. Fast zehn Stunden Nachtangriff auf London. |
(Almost ten hours of night raids on London.) |
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Sept. 18, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Massenelend in den Londoner U=Bahnhöfer. |
(Mass misery in London's underground stations.) |
2. Churchills Verbrechen an den englischen Müttern. |
(Churchill's crime against English mothers.) |
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Page published Sept. 18, 2021 |
