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June 13, 1942: Front page of the News and Chronicle, London, England. |
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Note the headline report: "U.S. Sank 15 Jap Ships, Lost 3, In Coral Sea" |
(The Navy announces the loss of USS Lexington CV-2 more than a month after the loss of the ship. Perhaps to lessen the sting of the loss of an aircraft carrier, a destroyer and a tanker, the Navy claims to have sunk 15+ Japanese ships, which of course, was not true. During the Battle of the Coral Sea the Japanese lost only one small aircraft carrier, Shoho, which was the first Japanese aircraft carrier sunk in World War II. An air attack against the Japanese invasion force bound for Tulagi in the Solomon Islands by aircraft from USS Yorktown CV-5, resulted in the loss of one destroyer and two small minesweepers. One cruiser-minelayer was damaged and it was sunk on May 11 by USS S-42 SS-153. The Japanese admit to the loss of 5 merchant ships between May 6 and May 8, but none lost to aircraft.) |
Also note the report in column 5: "The Terror Goes On - 18 More Czechs Shot" |
(More reprisal killings for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich.) |
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June 13, 1942: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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Note the report in column 2: "399 Dead in May Air Raids" |
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June 13, 1942: Front page of The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Mercury, Leeds, England. |
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June 13, 1942: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales. |
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June 13, 1942: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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June 13, 1942: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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June 13, 1942: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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June 13, 1942: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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June 13, 1942: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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June 13, 1942: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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June 13, 1942: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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June 13, 1942: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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Note the photo at center of President Franklin D. Roosevelt shaking hands with Ens. Donald F. Mason. |
Also note the report in column 7: "Relentless Shelling Of Torpedoed Ship Revealed by Skipper" |
(The unidentified ship was the 6,940-ton tanker M. F. Elliott, which was sunk by U-502 on June 3. Thirteen men were lost in the ship.) |
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June 13, 1942: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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June 13, 1942: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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June 13, 1942: Front page of the Tucson Daily Citizen, Tucson, Arizona. |
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June 13, 1942: Front page of the San Mateo Times, San Mateo, California. |
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Note the headline report: "U.S. Blasts Aleutian Japs" |
(Only two days after denying that Japan had occupied any islands in the Aleutians, the U.S. is now "blasting" the Japanese on the same unoccupied islands.) |
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June 13, 1942: Front page of the Teltower Kreisblatt, Kreis Teltow, Brandenburg, Germany. |
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1. Wichtige Höhe vor Sewastopol genommen - Zwei zäh verteidigte Festungswerke erstürmt. |
(Taken an important height before Sevastopol - Two tenaciously defended fortifications stormed.) |
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June 13, 1942: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. An der Ostfront verstärkte Kampftätigkeit. |
(Combat activity increased on the Eastern Front.) |
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Page published June 13, 2023 |