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May 8, 1941: Front page of the Nottingham Evening Post, Nottingham, England. |
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May 8, 1941: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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May 8, 1941: Front page of the Birmingham Gazette, Birmingham, England. |
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May 8, 1941: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales. |
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May 8, 1941: Front page of the Evening Telegraph and Post, Dundee, Scotland. |
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May 8, 1941: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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May 8, 1941: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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May 8, 1941: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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May 8, 1941: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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Note the report in column 3: "Sub Attacks G.B. Convoy" |
(Convoy OB-318 was attacked by six U-Boats over the course of 20 days. Ixion and Eastern Star were the first two ships from the convoy lost, both sunk by U-94. In all nine ships were sunk. One U-boat, U-110, was also sunk. This boat was under the command of Kapitänleutnant Fritz-Julius Lemp, the man who sank the Athenia, the first British ship sunk in World War II. An enigma machine and the code books were recovered from the boat before it was scuttled by the British, Lemp who had jumped into the sea, drowned before he could reboard the boat. |
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May 8, 1941: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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May 8, 1941: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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May 8, 1941: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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May 8, 1941: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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May 8, 1941: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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Note the report in columns 5-7: "Hospitals In U.S., Especially Along East, West And Gulf Coasts, Should Prepare To Become Bomb-Proof" |
(Dr. Benjamin W. Black, president of the American Hospital Association and medical director of the Alameda, county institutions at Oakland, claims hospitals should prepare to be bombed or attacked by an invading force.)
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May 8, 1941: Front page of The Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada. |
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May 8, 1941: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California. |
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Note the headline report: "Seek Bomb At F.D.R.'s Home" |
(State Police and Secret Service agents searching Hyde Park, Roosevelt's home, for a reported stash of dynamite.) |
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May 8, 1941: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. Dover heftig beschossen. |
(Dover heavily shelled.) |
2. London meldet umfassende Luftangriffe aus ganz England. |
(London reports widespread air raids from all over England.) |
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May 8, 1941: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Systematische Zerschlagung der britischen Häfen - Ein wesentlicher Abschnitt der Schlacht im Atlantik. |
(Systematic dismantling of British ports A key segment of the Battle of the Atlantic.) |
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Page published May 8, 2022 |