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June 11, 1942: Front page of the News and Chronicle, London, England. |
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Note the report in columns 2-5: "Germans Shoot Every Man In A Czech Village" |
(The village of Lidice was razed by the Germans in retaliation of the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich.) |
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June 11, 1942: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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June 11, 1942: Front page of The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Mercury, Leeds, England. |
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June 11, 1942: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales. |
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June 11, 1942: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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June 11, 1942: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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June 11, 1942: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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Note the report in columns 4-6: "Ninth Sub Believed Sunk Off Coast" |
(They are including the four midget submarines sunk in the Sydney Harbour attack, which makes the total of Japanese submarines sunk off Australia, four. Not a single fleet submarine had been sunk off the Australian coast, in fact, the Japanese did not lose a single fleet submarine, for any reason, in June of 1942.) |
Also note the photo second from top center: "One V.C. Invests Another" |
Also note the photo at top center: "Nazi Battleship Hide-Out Located" |
(Photo of the battleship Tirpitz at Trondheim, Norway) |
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June 11, 1942: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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June 11, 1942: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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June 11, 1942: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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June 11, 1942: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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Note the report in column 3: "Jew Is Marked Man Where Nazism Rules - Sadistic Cruelty Marks Treatment" |
(And yet people say, "we didn't know.") |
Also note the report in column 1: "Midway Victory Saved Hawaii From Invasion" |
(This may have been a legitimate belief by some, but we know that the invasion of the Hawaiian Islands was never the objective of the Japanese.) |
Also note the report in column 5: "Mason Tells How Enemy Sub Was Sunk" |
(Ens. Donald F. Mason of "sighted sub, sank same" fame tells how he sank a German U-boat. Unless this is the story of how he sank U-503, it was just not true. When he sent his famous message in late January of 1942, he had sunk no U-boat. In fact, no U-boats had been sunk by U.S. forces until Mar. 1, 1942. He did sink U-503 on Mar. 15th and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, presumably for sinking two U-boats.) |
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June 11, 1942: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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Note the report in column 1: "Story of Midway" |
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June 11, 1942: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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June 11, 1942: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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June 11, 1942: Front page of the Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada. |
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Note the report in column 4: "Navy Refutes Japs' Claims In Aleutians" |
(The Navy officially denied that Japanese forces had occupied any island in the Aleutians, even though the Navy knew very well that both Attu and Kiska islands hade indeed been occupied by the Japanese.) |
Also note the report in columns 3-4: "Axis Sub Ruthlessly Shells New England Fishing Boats" |
(The unidentified boats are the Aeolus and the Ben & Josephine. Both were sunk, thankfully there were no deaths. On Apr. 5, 1945 WBZ radio in Boston aired a story on this event. You can hear it here.) |
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June 11, 1942: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California. |
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June 11, 1942: Front page of the Teltower Kreisblatt, Kreis Teltow, Brandenburg, Germany. |
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1. Die große Ueberraschung für Roosevelt - Japans verteidigung 4600 Kilometer nach Osten geschoben. |
(The big surprise for Roosevelt - Japan's defenses pushed 4600 kilometers to the east.) |
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June 11, 1942: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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Vor den Toren Nordamerikas - Weitgreifende Seeoperationen der japanischen Wehrmacht - Landungen auf den Alëuten - Zwei USA. -Flugzeugträger vor Midway versenkt. |
(At the gates of North America - Extensive naval operations of the Japanese Wehrmacht - Landings in the Aleutian Islands - Two USA. -Aircraft carrier sunk off Midway.) |
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Page published June 11, 2023 |
