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May 25, 1941: Front page of The People, London, England. |
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Note the report in column 2: "War Cannot Last In 1942" |
(So says Sir John Jarvis, M.P.) |
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May 25, 1941: Front page of the Sunday Pictorial, London, England. |
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May 25, 1941: Front page of The Sunday Post, Glasgow, Scotland. |
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May 25, 1941: Front page of The Sunday Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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May 25, 1941: Front page of The Sunday Star, Washington, D.C. |
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Note the headline report: "Hood Sunk, 1,300 Feared Dead; British Pursue Fleeing Bismarck; R.A.F. Slashes at Crete Invaders" |
(Sadly the casualty figure was 1,418 with only three survivors. As a side note, May 25th was Admiral Günther Lütjens birthday.) |
| [More about HMS Hood here.] |
| [More about Bismarck here.] |
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May 25, 1941: Front page of The Cedar Rapids Gazette, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. |
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May 25, 1941: Front page of The Montana Standard, Butte, Montana. |
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May 25, 1941: Front page of the Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada. |
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May 25, 1941: Front page of the Oakland Tribune, Oakland, California. |
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May 25, 1941: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Westkreta in deutscher hand |
(Western Crete in German hands.) |
2. Kühner Angriff deutscher Fallschirmjäger und Luftlandetruppen - Luftherrschaft über dem Kampfraum errungen - Planmäßiger Verlauf der Operationen. |
(Bold attack by German paratroopers and airborne troops - Air supremacy achieved over the combat area - Operations proceed according to plan.) |
3. Schlachtkreuzer vernichtet - Großer Erfolg des 35.000-Tonnen-Schlachtschiffes Bismarck. |
(Battlecruiser Destroyed - Great success of the 35,000-ton battleship Bismarck.) |
4. Hood in die Luft geflogen. |
(Hood blown into the air.) |
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Page published May 25, 2022 |
