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June 21, 1942: Front page of The People, London, England. |
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June 21, 1942: Front page of the Sunday Pictorial, London, England. |
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June 21, 1942: Front page of The Sunday Post, Glasgow, Scotland. |
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June 21, 1942: Front page of The Sunday Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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June 21, 1942: Front page of The Sunday Mail, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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June 21, 1942: Front page of The Sunday Star, Washington, D.C. |
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Note the report at top left: "U.S. East Coast Mined by Enemy" |
(U-701 laid the mines which sank HM Trawler Kingston Ceylonite and the 7,117-ton freighter Santore. Three other ships, USS Bainbridge DD-246, the 11,237-ton tanker Esso Augusta and the 11,615-ton tanker Robert C. Tuttle. U-701 sank two more ships and damaged two others before being sunk off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina on July 7, 1942 by U.S. aircraft.) |
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June 21, 1942: Front page of The Sunday Star-News, Wilmington, North Carolina. |
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June 21, 1942: Front page of the Detroit Times, Detroit, Michigan. |
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June 21, 1942: Front page of The Kingsport Times, Kingsport, Tennessee. |
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June 21, 1942: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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June 21, 1942: Front page of The Montana Standard, Butte, Montana. |
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June 21, 1942: Front page of The Ogden Standard Examiner, Ogden City, Utah. |
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June 21, 1942: Front page of the Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada. |
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June 21, 1942: Front page of the Oakland Tribune, Oakland, California. |
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Note the photo at bottom: "First A.P. Wirephoto From Midway - Jap Cruiser In Death Throes" |
(After several reports of Japanese cruisers being sunk, this photo shows the first Japanese cruiser sunk in World War II. The cruiser was the Mikuma, which was sunk by aircraft from USS Hornet CV-8 and USS Enterprise CV-6 at the Battle of Midway on June 6, 1942. About 650 men were lost with the ship.) |
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June 21, 1942: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Das unsterbliche Heldenlied des deutschen Soldaten - Ein Jahr Krieg gegen Moskau - Europas Bewährung im Schicksalskampf gegen den Bolschewismus. |
(The immortal heroic song of the German soldier - A year of war against Moscow - Europe's probation in the fateful struggle against Bolshevism.) |
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Page published June 21, 2023 |