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March 30, 1941: Front page of The People, London, England. |
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Note the report in column 6: "Jews Barred From Trains In Poland" |
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March 30, 1941: Front page of the Sunday Pictorial, London, England. |
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Note the headline report: "Big Naval Battle - Italians Are Routed" |
(The big naval battle was the Battle of Cape Matapan, in which the Italians lost 3 cruisers and 2 destroyers with other ships damaged.) |
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March 30, 1941: Front page of The Sunday Post, Glasgow, Scotland. |
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March 30, 1941: Front page of the Sunday Telegraph, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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March 30, 1941: Front page of The Sunday Star, Washington, D.C. |
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March 30, 1941: Front page of the Detroit Times, Detroit, Michigan. |
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Note the report in column 8: "Duce Killed?" |
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Reuters dispatch from Belgrade claims Benito Mussolini has been killed in revolt. It also states that there is no confirmation from official circles. Of course, it was not true.
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Also note the report at bottom right: "Nazi Battleship in Pacific, Report; Fear Naval Action" |
(An unaccredited report from Shanghai claims that Scharnhorst or Gneisenau was in the Pacific. The report was completely untrue.) |
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March 30, 1941: Front page of The Sunday Star-News, Wilmington, North Carolina. |
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March 30, 1941: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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March 30, 1941: Front page of The Cedar Rapids Gazette, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. |
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March 30, 1941: Front page of The Helena Independent, Helena, Montana. |
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Note the report in column 1: "Three Axis Ships Will Attempt To Run Blockade" |
(The German ship Dresden made it past the blockade and survived the war. The Italian tanker Franco Martelli was sunk by the British submarine HMS Urge on Apr. 18, 1941 and the tanker Frisco slipped past the British and survived until Aug. 25, 1944 when it was scuttled at Bordeaux and later scrapped.) |
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March 30, 1941: Front page of the Oakland Tribune, Oakland, California. |
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March 30, 1941: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Großer Truppentransporter im Atlantik bombardiert. |
(Large troopship bombed in the Atlantic.) |
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Page published March 30, 2022 |