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May 9, 1941: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England. |
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Note the headline report: "H.M.S. Cornwall Sinks Nazi Raider" |
(HMS Cornwall sank the German Hilfskreuzer [auxiliary cruiser] Pinguin on May 8th. This was the first of the Hilfskreuzer sunk in World War II. Sadly, in addition to the 292 crewmen who were killed, there were also 155 Allied, mostly British, merchant seaman killed. These were the survivors of the ships Pinguin had sunk, which they not had the opportunity to transfer to another ship. HMS Cornwall would join Pinguin on the bottom of the sea less than a year later. On Apr. 5, 1942 HMS Cornwall and HMS Dorsetshire were sunk by Japanese aircraft in the Bay of Bengal.) |
Also note the report at top right: "Saved After 8 Days in Boat" |
(The unnamed ship was the SS Prins Willem II, which was sunk by U-98 on Apr. 9th.) |
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May 9, 1941: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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May 9, 1941: Front page of the Derby Evening Telegraph, Derby, England. |
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May 9, 1941: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales. |
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May 9, 1941: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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Note the report in columns 4-5: "Gestapo Secrets From Lofoten" |
(Captured documents show the tyranny of the Gestapo toward the Norwegian people. It also indicated a strong Norwegian resistance to the Nazi occupiers.) |
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May 9, 1941: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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May 9, 1941: Front page of the Daily Telegraph, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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May 9, 1941: Front page of The News, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. |
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May 9, 1941: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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May 9, 1941: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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May 9, 1941: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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May 9, 1941: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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May 9, 1941: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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May 9, 1941: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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May 9, 1941: Front page of The Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada. |
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Note the report in column 4: "Bombing Scare At Home of FDR Declared Hoax" |
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May 9, 1941: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California. |
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Note the report in column 4: "Joseph Stalin Pushes Russia Nearer To Axis" |
(This report suggests that Stalin and the USSR are considering joining the Axis. Even though in recent weeks there have been several reports that the Germans were massing troops along the Russian border in preparation of an attack against the Soviet Union. Which would happen on June 22.) |
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May 9, 1941: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. Terror der RAF gegen Hamburgs Bevölkerung. |
(More terror by the RAF against Hamburg's population.) |
2. Halifax droht mit, Großangriff auf Deutschland. |
(Halifax threatens major attack against Germany.) |
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May 9, 1941: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Heroismus bei gepackten Koffern - Churchills Vertrauenskomödie siegreich beendet. |
(Heroism with packed suitcases - Churchill's confidence comedy ended victorious.) |
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Page published May 9, 2022 |