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May 16, 1941: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England. |
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Note the report in column 3: "New Petrol Cut - 1/6th off Basic Goods Rations" |
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May 16, 1941: Front page of the Evening Express, Liverpool, England. |
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Note the report in column 6: "40,000 British Captured In France" |
Also note the report in column 3: "39's Register Tomorrow" |
Also note the photo at top: "Liverpool's Spitfires Ready" |
(Four Spitfires bought with Liverpool's Spitfire fund, are ready to fight the Germans.) |
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May 16, 1941: Front page of the Birmingham Gazette, Birmingham, England. |
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May 16, 1941: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales. |
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May 16, 1941: Front page of the Evening Telegraph and Post, Dundee, Scotland. |
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Note the report in column 5: "726 Killed On Roads In April" |
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May 16, 1941: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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May 16, 1941: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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May 16, 1941: Front page of The News, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. |
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May 16, 1941: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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May 16, 1941: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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May 16, 1941: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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May 16, 1941: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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May 16, 1941: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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May 16, 1941: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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| Note the report in column 6: "High Nazi Officer's Son Dies In Action" |
| (Major Axel von Blomberg, son of Werner von Blomberg, the former Reich Minister of War and Commander-in-Chief of the Wehrmacht, was shot down in error by Iraqi forces at Baghdad on May 15, 1941. His father was no longer a "high Nazi officer" as he was forced to resign his post back in January of 1938. His brother, Oberstleutnant Henning, the only other son of Werner, was killed in action on Nov. 22, 1942 in Tunisia. Werner von Blomberg had been in the news before, it was reported that he was executed back in 1939.) |
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May 16, 1941: Front page of The Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada. |
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May 16, 1941: Front page of the San Mateo Times, San Mateo, California. |
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May 16, 1941: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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Es gärt gegen England im nahen Orient. |
(Things are brewing against England in the Near East.) |
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May 16, 1941: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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Roosevelt schielt nach Dakar.
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(Roosevelt is eying Dakar.) |
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Page published May 16, 2022 |