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July 8, 1941: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England. |
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Note the report in column 2: "Woolton Says You'll Have 4 Eggs Each" |
July 8, 1941: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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July 8, 1941: Front page of the Evening Despatch, Birmingham, England. |
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Note the report in columns 3-4: "The Woolton Raspberry" |
July 8, 1941: Front page of The Evening News And Southern Daily Mail, Portsmouth and Southsea, England. |
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July 8, 1941: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales. |
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July 8, 1941: Front page of the Evening Telegraph and Post, Dundee, Scotland. |
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July 8, 1941: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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July 8, 1941: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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July 8, 1941: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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July 8, 1941: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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Note the report in column 6: "Nazi Submarine Is Destroyed By British Gunboat" |
(The unsourced report, from La Linea, Spain, claims a British gunboat sank a U-boat in the Strait of Gibraltar. They even state that the bodies of two German sailors were recovered. However, no German submarines were lost in July of 1941 and I have no record of any submarine being sunk on or about this date.) |
July 8, 1941: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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July 8, 1941: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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July 8, 1941: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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July 8, 1941: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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Note the report in column 7: "Planes Sink U-boat" |
(This unsourced report, from La Linea, Spain, claims it was British bombers that sank the U-boat off Gibraltar. It also states that two German sailors were taken prisoner.) |
July 8, 1941: Front page of The San Antonio Light, San Antonio, Texas. |
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July 8, 1941: Front page of The Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada. |
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Note the photos: "Will Iceland Move Halt This Tragedy? |
(This series of photos was earlier identified to be the sinking of the freighter Kemmendine, which was sunk by the German Hilfskreuzer [auxiliary cruiser] Atlantis on July 13, 1941.) |
July 8, 1941: Front page of the San Mateo Times, San Mateo, California. |
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July 8, 1941: Front page of the Teltower Kreisblatt, Kreis Teltow, Brandenburg, Germany. |
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1. GPU.-Listen für deutsche Ostgebiete. |
(GPU. Lists for German Eastern Territories.) |
2. London lobt Massenmorde - Plutokraten und Bolschewisten die Weltfeinde. |
(London praises mass murders - Plutocrats and Bolsheviks the world's enemies.) |
July 8, 1941: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Die Sowjetluftwaffe endgültig zerschlagen. |
(The Soviet air force finally crushed.) |
2. Schwerste Verluste bolschewistischer Flieger - Czernowitz genommen. |
(Heaviest losses of Bolshevik airmen - Czernowitz taken.) |
3. Ein neuer Massenmord der GPU. entdeckt - 1500 Ukrainer mit MG. niedergemetzelt. |
(Another mass murder by the GPU. discovered - 1500 Ukrainians massacred with machine guns.) |
Page published July 8, 2022 |