World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Sunday June 7, 1942
Day 1,011

June 7, 1942: Front page of The People, London, England.
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Over the wireless:


June 7, 1942: Front page of the Sunday Pictorial, London, England.
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June 7, 1942: Front page of The Sunday Post, Glasgow, Scotland.
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June 7, 1942: Front page of The Sunday Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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Note the headline report: "Midway Island: At Least 8 Japanese Battleships, Carriers, Cruisers, Troopships Hit. U.S. Forces Blast Enemy"
(While the Battle of Midway was a great victory for the Americans, and a devastating defeat to the Japanese, this headline was false. Reports of damaged battleships were incorrect, but four aircraft carriers and a cruiser were sunk. On the U.S. side, one aircraft carrier, USS Yorktown CV-5 and a destroyer USS Hammann DD-412 were sunk. The significance of the Battle of Midway was not realized for several days.)
Also note the report at top left: "38 MIssing in Second Torpedoing"
(The unidentified ship was the 3,353-ton freighter Iron Crown, which was sunk by the Japanese submarine I-27. Thirty-seven men were lost in the ship. The report claims the boat was attacked and sunk by Allied aircraft, which was not true. I-27 survived until Feb. of 1944.)


June 7, 1942: Front page of The Sunday Mail, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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June 7, 1942: Front page of The Sunday Star, Washington, D.C.
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Note the headline report: "2 Or 3 Jap Carriers Sunk At Midway, Momentous Victory Near, Nimitz Says"
(Admiral Nimitz had still not received the information confirming that four aircraft carriers had been sunk.)
Also note the report in column 6: "Submarine Reported Sunk by Fruit Ship In Gulf Attack"
(No U-boat had been sunk by a banana boat.)


June 7, 1942: Front page of The Sunday Star-News, Wilmington, North Carolina.
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June 7, 1942: Front page of the Detroit Times, Detroit, Michigan.
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June 7, 1942: Front page of The Kingsport Times, Kingsport, Tennessee.
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Note the report in columns 2-7: "Official State Blackout Instructions"
(Practice blackouts in Tennessee were a big success, not ridiculous, absurd a waste of time like you might think. Because of the blackout, Tennessee was never located or bombed by a single German aircraft.)


June 7, 1942: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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Note the report in columns 2-3: "War's Murder; We Must Murder Best"
(Comments by CBS radio correspondent, and survivor of the sinking of HMS Repulse. The only remark I can make is, can you imagine a CBS reported, or indeed, any reporter from the left-wing press, making remarks like this today?)


June 7, 1942: Front page of The Montana Standard, Butte, Montana.
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June 7, 1942: Front page of The Ogden Standard Examiner, Ogden City, Utah.
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June 7, 1942: Front page of the Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada.
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June 7, 1942: Front page of the Oakland Tribune, Oakland, California.
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June 7, 1942: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP.
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1. Balance sheet after six months of the Roosevelt War - Alljudas prophets have already become idiotic.
(Balance sheet after six months of the Roosevelt War - All Jew prophets have already become idiotic.)



   
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