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June 9, 1942: Front page of the News and Chronicle, London, England. |
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Note the report in column 5: "The Terror Goes on - 14 MOre Czechs Shot" |
(More reprisal executions for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich.) |
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Over the wireless: |
Beyond the headlines: |
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June 9, 1942: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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Note the report in column 4: "Trawler Presumed Lost" |
(HM Trawler Bedfordshire FY-141 was on assignment with the U.S. Navy and was on an anti-submarine patrol when sunk by U-558 off of Cape Lookout, North Carolina. All thirty-seven men were lost in the ship.) |
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June 9, 1942: Front page of The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Mercury, Leeds, England. |
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June 9, 1942: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales. |
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June 9, 1942: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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June 9, 1942: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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June 9, 1942: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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June 9, 1942: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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June 9, 1942: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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Note the report in column 2: "German Sub Camouflaged Like Iceberg" |
(Another report that is pure fantasy.) |
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June 9, 1942: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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June 9, 1942: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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June 9, 1942: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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Note the report in columns 6-7: "Two U.S. Blimps Collide at Sea; 3 Die, 9 Missing, 1 Saved" |
(None of the missing survived.0 |
Also note the report in columns 2-4: "Shot-Down Flyer, Floating 24 Hours on Raft, Has Fish-Eye View of Epic Midway Battle" |
(The story of Ens. George Gay of Torpedo Squadron Eight.) |
| [More about Torpedo Squadron Eight here.] |
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June 9, 1942: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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June 9, 1942: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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June 9, 1942: Front page of the Tucson Daily Citizen, Tucson, Arizona. |
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June 9, 1942: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California. |
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June 9, 1942: Front page of the Teltower Kreisblatt, Kreis Teltow, Brandenburg, Germany. |
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1. Australien verdunkelt sie Küste - Japanische Kriegsschiffe haben Sydney beschossen - Große Erregung der Bevölkerung. |
(Australia darkens her coast - Japanese warships have shelled Sydney - Great excitement of the population.) |
2. Feierliche Einholung Heydrichs in der Reichshauptstadt. |
(Celebration of Heydrich in the capital of the Reich.) |
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June 9, 1942: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Erfolgreiche Angriffe an der Ostfront - Im Nord- und Mittelabschnitt weiterer Geländegewinn - Ttotz zähen Widerstandes und schlechter Wetterlage. |
(Successful attacks on the eastern front - in the northern and central sector further ground gain - despite tough resistance and bad weather conditions.) |
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Page published June 9, 2023 |
