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January 18, 1941: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England. |
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January 18, 1941: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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January 18, 1941: Front page of the Derby Evening Telegraph, Derby, England. |
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January 18, 1941: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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Note the headline report: "Two Big Italian Liners Torpedoed" |
(The report was false. Liguria had been damaged by Allied aircraft in July of 1940 and was scuttled on Jan. 22, 1941 off Tobruk, Libya. Lombardia had a similar fate. Damaged by Allied aircraft in mid-1943, she was scuttled in Sept. 1943. Both ships were later scrapped.) |
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January 18, 1941: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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Note the photo at bottom: "Merchant Marine Pride" |
(The press just updating the whereabouts of the Queen Elizabeth ot the enemy.) |
Also note the report in column 8: "Kennedy Opposes Air Bill" |
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January 18, 1941: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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January 18, 1941: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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January 18, 1941: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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January 18, 1941: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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January 18, 1941: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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Note the report in column 3: "French Freighter Mendoza Reported Seized Off Brazil" |
(True, Mendoza was a Vichy French ship captured by HMS Asturias.) |
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January 18, 1941: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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Note the report in columns 5-7: "Flu Reaches Peak Health Chief Says; Yellow Springs Schools Close Down" |
(The 1940's version of COVID-19.) |
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January 18, 1941: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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January 18, 1941: Front page of The Montana Standard, Butte, Montana. |
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January 18, 1941: Front page of the San Mateo Times, San Mateo, California. |
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January 18, 1941: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. Bombentreffer auf London Bahnhof. |
(Bomb hits London train station.) |
2. Angriff auf Hafen der der Westküste. |
(Attack on a west coast port.) |
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January 18, 1941: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Keine Ruhe für Englands Mittelmeerflotte. |
(No rest for England's Mediterranean Fleet.) |
2.Schwerer deutscher Angriff auf den Hafen von Malta. |
(Heavy German attack on the harbor of Malta.) |
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Page published January 18, 2022 |
