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May 12, 1942: Front page of the News and Chronicle, London, England. |
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May 12, 1942: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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May 12, 1942: Front page of The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Mercury, Leeds, England. |
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May 12, 1942: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales. |
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May 12, 1942: Front page of the Evening Telegraph and Post, Dundee, Scotland. |
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Note the report in column 3: "183,550 British Casualties - Total Killed-48,973" |
(This headline speaks for itself.) |
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May 12, 1942: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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May 12, 1942: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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May 12, 1942: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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May 12, 1942: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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Note the headline report: "U-Boat Sinks Ship In St. Lawrence" |
(The unnamed ship was the 4,712-ton Dutch freighter Leto, which was sunk by U-553. Twelve men were lost with the ship, there were forty-one survivors.) |
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May 12, 1942: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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Note the report in column 8: "Three British Destroyers Lost Off Libya" |
(HM Destroyers Kipling, Lively were sunk by German aircraft. HMS Jackel was damaged and scuttled the following day.) |
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May 12, 1942: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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May 12, 1942: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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May 12, 1942: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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May 12, 1942: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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May 12, 1942: Front page of the Tucson Daily Citizen, Tucson, Arizona. |
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May 12, 1942: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California. |
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Note the report in columns 6-7: "Nazis Execute 24 Dutchmen" |
(The report also states that 20 Frenchmen have also bee executed.) |
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May 12, 1942: Front page of the Teltower Kreisblatt, Kreis Teltow, Brandenburg, Germany. |
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1. Churchills Sturheit gräbt Englands Grab. |
(Churchill's stubbornness digs England's grave.) |
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May 12, 1942: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Die Bilanz eines Amokläufers - 2 Jahre Churchill - 2 Jahre Katastrophen. |
(The balance sheet of a gunman - 2 years Churchill - 2 years of catastrophes.) |
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Page published May 12, 2023 |