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September 6, 1941: Front page of the News and Chronicle, London, England. |
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September 6, 1941: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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September 6, 1941: Front page of The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Mercury, Leeds, England. |
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September 6, 1941: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales. |
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September 6, 1941: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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September 6, 1941: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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September 6, 1941: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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September 6, 1941: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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Note the report in column 1: "Marked Decrease Seen in Epidemic" |
September 6, 1941: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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September 6, 1941: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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Note the report at top left: "U-Boat Fired at Greer in Defense Against Attack, Germans Declare; Battle Lasted Till Near Midnight" |
(The German statement matches exactly what the U-boat commander wrote in his war diary.) |
Also note the report in column 3: "Four Americans Lost, Two Hurt When Sub Torpedoed Ship" |
(The unnamed ship was the Fort Richepanse, which had been attacked and damaged by German aircraft and later in the day was sunk by U-567. The Americans were recruits heading to England to join the Royal Air Force. The four men were; William M. Bishop, John R. Cox, Harry H. Hay and Frank J. Kruszynski.) |
Also note the political cartoon at top right: "Scooped--by the Ghost Reporter" |
Also note the report in column 6: "Asks Liberty or Death, Dies" |
(As the late, great Paul Harvey would say "here is a strange."
A stranger strolled into the midst of a political argument on the Adair County Courthouse lawn, shouted, "Give me liberty or death"-and dropped dead.) |
September 6, 1941: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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September 6, 1941: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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September 6, 1941: Front page of The Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada. |
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September 6, 1941: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California. |
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September 6, 1941: Front page of the Teltower Kreisblatt, Kreis Teltow, Brandenburg, Germany. |
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1. Neue deutsche Schläge an der Ostfront. |
(New German strikes on the Eastern Front.) |
September 6, 1941: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Bauernelend im Moskauer Sklavenstaat. |
(Peasant misery in the Moscow slave state.) |
What was not on the front page today. |
On this day the Japanese formally decided to go to war against the United States and Britain. |
Page published September 6, 2022 |