World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Sunday October 5, 1941
Day 766

October 5, 1941: Front page of The People, London, England.
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Note the report in column 5: "Von Leeb Said To Have Resigned"
(Another false report from Moscow. Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm von Leeb, Commander of Army Group North during the Russian campaign, did not resign, but survived the war. He was sentenced to three years in prison for war crimes he should have been executed for, and died in 1966.)


October 5, 1941: Front page of the Sunday Pictorial, London, England.
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October 5, 1941: Front page of The Sunday Post, Glasgow, Scotland.
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October 5, 1941: Front page of The Sunday Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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October 5, 1941: Front page of The Sunday Star, Washington, D.C.
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October 5, 1941: Front page of The Sunday Star-News, Wilmington, North Carolina.
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October 5, 1941: Front page of the Detroit Times, Detroit, Michigan.
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Note the report in columns 3-4: "Blimp to Attempt Rescue Of Flier Trapped on Peak"
(George Hopkins still awaiting rescue atop of Devil's Tower in Wyoming.)


October 5, 1941: Front page of The Kingsport Times, Kingsport, Tennessee.
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October 5, 1941: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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Note the report in column 3: "Kills Himself - Indicted Union Leader Is Suicide Victim"
(Grant Dunne, CIO teamsters union leader under indictment for plotting to overthrow the U.S. government, shot himself at his home in Minneapolis, Minnesota. More historic proof that unions are nothing more than communist/criminal organization. I contend they still are today.)



October 5, 1941: Front page of The Telegraph-Herald, Dubuque, Iowa.
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October 5, 1941: Front page of the Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada.
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October 5, 1941: Front page of the Oakland Tribune, Oakland, California.
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October 5, 1941: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP.
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1. Die Worte des Führers - die Sprache des Sieges.
(The words of the Führer - the language of victory.)
2. Der deutsche Herbststurm über den Bolschewisten.
(The German autumn storm over the Bolsheviks.)



   
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