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May 26, 1942: Front page of the News and Chronicle, London, England. |
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May 26, 1942: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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May 26, 1942: Front page of The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Mercury, Leeds, England. |
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May 26, 1942: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales. |
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May 26, 1942: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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Note the report in column 6: "Jap Atrocities In Burma" |
May 26, 1942: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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May 26, 1942: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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May 26, 1942: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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May 26, 1942: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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May 26, 1942: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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Note the headline report: "Cut Ordered In Tea, Coffee, Sugar" and the report in columns 7-8: "Tea Use Reduced One-Half, Coffee By One-Quarter" |
May 26, 1942: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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May 26, 1942: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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May 26, 1942: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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Note the report in columns 2-3: "American Destroyer Damaged By Torpedo" |
(USS Blakeley DD-150 was torpedoed by U-156, six men were lost in the ship.) |
May 26, 1942: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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May 26, 1942: Front page of the Tucson Daily Citizen, Tucson, Arizona. |
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Note the report in column 2: "U-Boat Sinking Off Brazil Is Now Confirmed" |
(The confirmation was false, no U-boats had been sunk by U.S. aircraft.) |
May 26, 1942: Front page of the San Mateo Times, San Mateo, California. |
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May 26, 1942: Front page of the Teltower Kreisblatt, Kreis Teltow, Brandenburg, Germany. |
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1. Vernichtungsschlacht südlich Charkow. |
(Battle of annihilation south of Kharkov.) |
May 26, 1942: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Drei Sowjetarmeen eingschlossen - Große Kesselschlacht im Raum südlich Charkow. |
(Three Soviet armies included - Great pocket battle in the area south of Kharkov. |
Page published May 26, 2023 |