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June 24, 1942: Front page of the News and Chronicle, London, England. |
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Note the report in column 3: "The Terror Goes On - 73 MOre Czechs Die in Three Days" |
(More executions in the wake of the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich.) |
June 24, 1942: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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Note the report in column 5: "M.B.E. for Hull Ship's Officer" |
(The unnamed ship was the 11,999-ton tanker Athelcrown, which was sunk by U-82 on Jan. 22, 1942. Five men were lost in the ship.) |
June 24, 1942: Front page of The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Mercury, Leeds, England. |
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June 24, 1942: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales. |
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June 24, 1942: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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June 24, 1942: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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Note the report in column 6: "Submarine Rescues Timor Airmen" |
(The report has the name of the commanding officer spelled incorrectly, Lt. Cdr. Hiram Cassedy, was commanding officer of USS Searaven SS-196 when he accomplished this feat.) |
Also note the report in column 5: "Germans Lose 10,000,000" |
(The claim made by Moscow, was very exaggerated. 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.) |
June 24, 1942: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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June 24, 1942: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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June 24, 1942: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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June 24, 1942: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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June 24, 1942: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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June 24, 1942: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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June 24, 1942: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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June 24, 1942: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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June 24, 1942: Front page of the Tucson Daily Citizen, Tucson, Arizona. |
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June 24, 1942: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California. |
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June 24, 1942: Front page of the Teltower Kreisblatt, Kreis Teltow, Brandenburg, Germany. |
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1. England verkaufte Europa an Stalin. |
(England sold Europe to Stalin.) |
June 24, 1942: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Letzte Enthüllung über Englands Verrat - GPU.-Kontrolle über ganz Europa. |
(Final revelation of England's treachery - GPU. control of all of Europe.) |
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