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May 6, 1942: Front page of the News and Chronicle, London, England. |
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Note the report in column 7: "Rationing of Sweets Will Give
½ lb. to all" |
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May 6, 1942: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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Note the report in column 7: "Missing Pilots Last Message - I've Got The Low Down Cheerio" |
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May 6, 1942: Front page of The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Mercury, Leeds, England. |
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May 6, 1942: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales. |
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May 6, 1942: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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Note the report in column 5: "A.V.G. To Be Disbanded" |
(The end of the Flying Tigers.) |
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May 6, 1942: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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May 6, 1942: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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May 6, 1942: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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May 6, 1942: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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May 6, 1942: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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Note the report in columns 1-2: "I Was A Prisoner Of the Gestapo" |
(The first in a three part series by Frank G. Nelson.) |
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May 6, 1942: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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May 6, 1942: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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Note the report in column 3: "Axis U-Boat Is Sunk By U.S. Destroyer Patrolling Atlantic" |
(This could be a description of the sinking of U-85 by USS Roper DD-147 on Apr. 14th. However, the report seems to suggest that this action happened in recent days, not weeks ago. The last sentence reads; "With the action over, the destroyer picked up survivors and resumed patrol." In the action against U-85 there were no survivors. To date I have seen no reports about the sinking of U-85, which was the first U-boat sunk off the U.S. east coast. Even though the details are not exactly the same, and since no other U-boats had been sunk by U.S. surface vessels, it is likely a report about that action.) |
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May 6, 1942: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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May 6, 1942: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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May 6, 1942: Front page of the Tucson Daily Citizen, Tucson, Arizona. |
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May 6, 1942: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California. |
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May 6, 1942: Front page of the Teltower Kreisblatt, Kreis Teltow, Brandenburg, Germany. |
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May 6, 1942: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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Page published May 6, 2023 |
