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June 12, 1941: Front page of the Nottingham Evening Post, Nottingham, England. |
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June 12, 1941: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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June 12, 1941: Front page of the Birmingham Gazette, Birmingham, England. |
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Note the report in column 4: "Hitler's New Fleet Commander" |
(Admiral Otto Schneiwind named to replace Admiral Günther Lütjens as Flottenchef. Schneiwind would remain in this position until the end of the war.) |
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June 12, 1941: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales. |
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Note the report in column 5: "Channel Islands Under the Nazis" |
(The Channel Islands were the only British territory invaded and occupied by the Germans in World War II.) |
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June 12, 1941: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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June 12, 1941: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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June 12, 1941: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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June 12, 1941: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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June 12, 1941: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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Note the report in column 7: "8,000 Ton Terror Sunk" |
(The report of the loss of HMS Terror is a little out of date. HMS Terror was sunk on Feb. 21 off Tobruk, Libya. The other ship mentioned as lost, HMS Ladybird, was a recent loss. It was sunk on May 12.) |
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June 12, 1941: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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June 12, 1941: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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June 12, 1941: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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Note the report at top right: "Nazi Sub That Sank Robin Moor Aware Of Identity, U.S. Told" |
(Robin Moor was sunk by U-69 and it was the first U.S. merchant ship sunk by direct enemy action in World War II. The first U.S. owned ship sunk in World War II was the City of Rayville, which was sunk by a mine laid by the German auxiliary minelayer Passat on Nov. 9, 1940. The first U.S. owned merchant ship sunk by direct enemy action was the Charles Pratt, sunk by U-65 on Dec. 21, 1940, but it had been transferred to Panama and was flying the Panamanian flag when lost. Robin Moor was known by the U-boat commander to be a U.S. ship when it was sunk.) |
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June 12, 1941: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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June 12, 1941: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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Note the report in column 2: "5893 Men Lost" |
(The figure released by the Germans was pretty close to true.) |
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June 12, 1941: Front page of The Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada. |
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June 12, 1941: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California. |
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June 12, 1941: Front page of the Briesetal-Bote, Kreis Niederbarnim, Brandenburg, Germany. |
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1. Die Erfolge im Kampf gegen England. |
(The successes in the fight against England.) |
2. General Antonescu bei Ribbentrop. |
(General Antonescu with Ribbentrop.) |
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June 12, 1941: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Vier Monate stolzester Siege gegen England. |
(Four months of the proudest victories against England.) |
2. Zusammenfassender Bericht des OKW. über die bisherigen Erfolge im Kriegsjahr 1941. |
(OKW summary report about the war successes in 1941.)
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Page published June 12, 2022 |
