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December 27, 1940: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England. |
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Note the report in column 3: British Destroyer Lost" |
(HMS Acheron was sunk by a mine. Ship was on post repair trials after having her stern blown off in air raid Aug. 24, 1940 at Portsmouth. Not much of a report considering 196 men died.) |
Also note the report in column 3: "Warsaw Jews Put in Ghetto" |
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December 27, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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Note the report in columns 5-6: "Dutch Protest at Nazi Anti-Jewish Laws" |
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December 27, 1940: Front page of The Midland Daily Telegraph, Coventry, England. |
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Note the headline report: "Raider Shells Pacific Island" |
(This was the work of the German Hilfskreuzer [auxiliary cruiser] Komet.) |
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December 27, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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December 27, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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Note the report in column 5: "Missing Pilot Safe" |
(Neville Bell, reported missing in the Northern Territory yesterday, found safe alive.) |
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December 27, 1940: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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December 27, 1940: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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December 27, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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December 27, 1940: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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December 27, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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December 27, 1940: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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December 27, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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December 27, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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December 27, 1940: Front page of The Helena Independent, Helena, Montana. |
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Note the photo at center: "Uncle Sam's New Aircraft Carrier" |
(Announcing the launching of the Hornet CV-8.) |
Also note the report in column 6: "Five Million Aliens Have Been Signed" |
(5,000,000 Aliens had been registered between June 29, 1940 and Dec. 27, 1940. This was long before computers and modern forms of communications. We have been told for years now that there is just no way to register all of the illegal aliens currently in the United States (some estimates give the number as upwards of 30 million.) yet they did five million in a few months back in 1940.) |
| [See "Registration Of Aliens In U.S. Is Ordered" in The Bakersfield Californian of June 29, 1940.] |
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December 27, 1940: Front page of the San Mateo Times, San Mateo, California. |
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December 27, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. Schwerer Wetterkatastrophen in ganz Amerika. |
(Sever weather catastrophes across America.) |
2. Ruchloser Angriff der RAF am 2. Feiertag. |
(Ruthless attack by the RAF on the 2nd holiday.) |
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December 27, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Die zweite Kriegsweihnacht im Westen. |
(The second Christmas of the war in the west.) |
2. Der Führer im Kreise seiner Soldaten und Frontarbeiter. |
(The Führer with the soldiers and the frontline workers.) |
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Page published December 27, 2021 |