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June 23, 1942: Front page of the News and Chronicle, London, England. |
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June 23, 1942: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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Note the report in columns 7-8: "10,000,000 German Casualties in Year" |
(While sources differ, most indicate that the war in the east cost about 1.1 million dead, 1 million missing and taken prisoner and about 3.5 million sick and wounded. This figure is for the entire war, not just the year mentioned in the report.) |
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June 23, 1942: Front page of The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Mercury, Leeds, England. |
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June 23, 1942: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales. |
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June 23, 1942: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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June 23, 1942: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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June 23, 1942: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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June 23, 1942: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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June 23, 1942: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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June 23, 1942: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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June 23, 1942: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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June 23, 1942: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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Note the report in columns 2-3: "Vessel Hit by Two Torpedoes Goes Down in Three Minutes" |
(The unidentified ship was the 5,896-ton passenger ship Cherokee, which was sunk by U-87.) |
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June 23, 1942: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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June 23, 1942: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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Note the photos at top: "As Navy Planes Worked Over Big Jap Cruiser" |
(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 23, 1942: Front page of the Tucson Daily Citizen, Tucson, Arizona. |
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June 23, 1942: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California. |
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June 23, 1942: Front page of the Teltower Kreisblatt, Kreis Teltow, Brandenburg, Germany. |
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1. Des Führers Dank an Rommel. |
(The Führer's thanks to Rommel.) |
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June 23, 1942: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. So sicher fühlten die Briten sich in ihrer Festung - Rommel stürmt Toburk? Ein Witz...! |
(That's how safe the British felt in their fortress - Rommel storming Toburk? A joke...!) |
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Page published June 23, 2023 |
