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April 24, 1942: Front page of the News and Chronicle, London, England. |
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April 24, 1942: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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April 24, 1942: Front page of The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Mercury, Leeds, England. |
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April 24, 1942: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales. |
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April 24, 1942: Front page of the Evening Telegraph and Post, Dundee, Scotland. |
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April 24, 1942: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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April 24, 1942: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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April 24, 1942: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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April 24, 1942: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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April 24, 1942: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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April 24, 1942: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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Note the report in column 7: "Merchant Ship Is Sunk Off Coast" |
(The unnamed ship is 4,834-ton freighter Alcoa Guide, sunk on Apr. 17 by U-123.) |
April 24, 1942: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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Note the report in column 8: "Submarine Believed Sunk After Tanker Rescues 29" |
(I have not been able to identify the ship the survivors came from, but the rescue ship, Faja de Oro, did not sunk a U-boat and was sunk herself on May 21, 1942 by U-106. When Mexico declared war on Germany in June, the sinking of the Faja de Oro was mentioned as one of the reasons.) |
April 24, 1942: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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April 24, 1942: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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April 24, 1942: Front page of The Southern Jewish Weekly, Jacksonville, Florida. |
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Note the report at top right: "Evacuation of Jews From France Considered by Nazi" |
Also note the report in column 5: "Nazis Demand Stoppage Of Jewish Births" |
April 24, 1942: Front page of the Tucson Daily Citizen, Tucson, Arizona. |
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Note the report in column 5: "Flying Tiger Says Japanese Inferior" |
April 24, 1942: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California. |
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April 24, 1942: Front page of the Teltower Kreisblatt, Kreis Teltow, Brandenburg, Germany. |
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1. Genau acht Minuten englische Blitzoffensive. |
(Exactly eight minutes English blitz offensive.) |
April 24, 1942: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Roosevelt entmündigt England nun auch militärisch - London erklärt: Kriegsleitung liegt in Washington. |
(Roosevelt now also incapacitates England militarily - London declares: War management lies in Washington.) |
Page published April 24, 2023 |