World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Saturday May 30, 1942
Day 1,003

May 30, 1942: Front page of the News and Chronicle, London, England.
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Note the report in columns 6-7: "Heydrich: Critical Says Rome - Twelve More Czechs Are Shot, Including Five Women"
(The bloodbath in the aftermath of Operation Anthropoid was just beginning.)


May 30, 1942: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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May 30, 1942: Front page of The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Mercury, Leeds, England.
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May 30, 1942: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales.
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Note the report in column 2: " Biscuit Sales Zone Plan"
(Clarification for Americans, biscuits, in England, means cookies, not buttermilk rolls.)


May 30, 1942: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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Note the photo: "Princess Visits Her Regiment"
(H.R.H. Princess Elizabeth, in her capacity as Colonel-in-Chief of the Grenadier Guards is seen inspecting the regiment.)


May 30, 1942: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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May 30, 1942: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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Note the report in columns 6-7: " Mother Gave More Than Life"
(A sad story of a tremendously brave woman.)


May 30, 1942: Front page of The News, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
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May 30, 1942: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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May 30, 1942: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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May 30, 1942: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C.
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May 30, 1942: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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May 30, 1942: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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Note the headline report: " 22 Killed In New Gulf Ship Sinking" and the report in column 8: "Torpedo Rams Into Departing Lifeboat"
(The unidentified ship was the 5,030-ton U.S. freighter Carrabulle, which was sunk on May 26 by U-106, twenty-two men were lost in the ship.)


May 30, 1942: Front page of the Tucson Daily Citizen, Tucson, Arizona.
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Note the report in column 8: "Navy Announces Sinking Of Sub"
(There may have been an attack against a submarine, or some other object, but no German or Italian submarines were sunk by U.S. aircraft on that day.)


May 30, 1942: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California.
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May 30, 1942: Front page of the Teltower Kreisblatt, Kreis Teltow, Brandenburg, Germany.
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1. Es wird feste weiter gelogen - London verkriecht sich hinter Moskau - Timoschenkos Heere haben nicht existiert.
(The lies continue to lie - London hides behind Moscow - Timoshenko's armies did not exist.)


May 30, 1942: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP.
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1. Stalin unterschlägt Charkow-Katastrophe - Die Gefangenen - und Beutezahlen steigen.
(Stalin ignores the Kharkov disaster - the prisoners - and the amount of loot increases.)



   
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