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September 20, 1941: Front page of the News and Chronicle, London, England. |
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September 20, 1941: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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September 20, 1941: Front page of The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Mercury, Leeds, England. |
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September 20, 1941: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales. |
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Note the report in columns 4-5: "Dutch Submarine Sinks Two Italian Ships" |
(The named ship, Isarco, was sunk Sept. 5th by O-21. The same submarine sank the 7,271-ton Ernesto on Sept. 7th. The Dutch submarine HNLMS O-24 sank the 247-ton Carla on Sept. 6 and the 5,114-ton Italo Balbo on Sept. 9th.) |
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September 20, 1941: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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Note the photo of the Royal Family at top center. Princess Elizabeth [later Queen Elizabeth II] is seen at left. |
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September 20, 1941: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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September 20, 1941: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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Note the report in column 2: "B.B.C. Mystery" |
Also note the report in column 6: "U.S. Navy & Raider" |
(Reporters asked President Roosevelt if the sinking of a German raider was true, he declined to comment. That was all he could do, because no German raider had been sunk.) |
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September 20, 1941: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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Note the report in column 3: "Report U.S. Warship Sunk By Raider" |
(Somehow this report got the story backwards. The report seen in the Sydney paper above, which had been circulating since yesterday, was that a German raider had been sunk, not that a U.S. ship was sunk by a German raider.) |
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September 20, 1941: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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September 20, 1941: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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Note the report in column 4: "Chicago Tribune Raps Lindbergh" |
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September 20, 1941: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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Note the photo at bottom left: "A New Bridge To Free Nations" |
(The concept ship would never be built, but the United States would build thousands of Liberty and Victory ships.) |
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September 20, 1941: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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Note the report in column 3: "Nazis Shoot 12 More In Paris in Reprisal For Soldier's Slaying - Von Stuelpnagel Warns Others Face Death if Further Attacks Occur" |
(Otto von Stülpnagel, while he was the military commander of occupied France, had a difficult relationship with the Nazi hierarchy. Making numerous formal complaints about theft of art, treatment of the French and various other things, he finally resigned in 1942. He was replaced by his cousin Cark-Heinrich von Stülpnagel. Otto returned to Berlin, where he stayed until the end of the war. He was arrested by the Allies for war crimes [he had executed over 100 French civilians,] but he committed suicide before he could be tried.) |
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September 20, 1941: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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Note the report in columns 5-6: "Norway Harasses Germans" |
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September 20, 1941: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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September 20, 1941: Front page of The Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada. |
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September 20, 1941: Front page of the San Mateo Times, San Mateo, California. |
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September 20, 1941: Front page of the Teltower Kreisblatt, Kreis Teltow, Brandenburg, Germany. |
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1. Reichskriegsflagge über Kiew und Poltawa. |
(Reich war flag over Kiev and Poltava.) |
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September 20, 1941: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Deutsche Truppen in Kiew - Poltawa genommen. |
(German troops in Kiev - Poltava taken.) |
2. Budjennys Armeen vor der Vernichtung. |
(Budenny's armies facing annihilation.) |
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Page published September 20, 2022 |
