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June 29, 1942: Front page of the News and Chronicle, London, England. |
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Note the report in column 5: "U-Boats Have New Secret" |
(This report was complete fantasy.) |
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June 29, 1942: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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Note the report in column 4: "Saboteurs Land In U.S. - Captured by G-Men" |
(One group was dropped off on Long Island, New York on June 13th by U-202 and another group was dropped off in Florida by U-201 on June 17th.) |
Also note the report in column 3: "More Nazi Murders" |
(15 More Czechs executed in retaliation for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich.) |
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June 29, 1942: Front page of The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Mercury, Leeds, England. |
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Note the report in column 3: "Two Tankers Sunk" |
(The names of both ships in the report are misspelled. Both Tuxpam and Las Choapas were sunk by U-129.) |
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June 29, 1942: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales. |
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June 29, 1942: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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June 29, 1942: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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Note the report in column 4: "Freighter Sinks Jap. Sub." |
(This report was not true. As it turns out the only vessel that the Tongariro ever sank was the 4,404-ton tanker Socony, which was sunk in a collision on Sept. 9, 1941. No Japanese fleet submarines were lost for any reason in June of 1942.) |
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June 29, 1942: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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Note the report in column 1: "Loss Of Aust. Warship; 3 Dead" |
(HMAS Nestor was sunk by German aircraft on June 16 while acting as an escort for convoy Vigorous, which was the Alexandria to Malta convoy. Four men were lost with the ship.) |
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June 29, 1942: Front page of The News, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. |
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June 29, 1942: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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June 29, 1942: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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June 29, 1942: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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June 29, 1942: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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June 29, 1942: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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Note the report in column 5: "Million Jews Die" |
(One might think that the deaths of over a million people might rate a full headline, rather than a small paragraph. Was Josef Stalin right when he said; "one mans death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic?") |
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June 29, 1942: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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Note the report in columns 2-3: "Tanker Goes Down In Flames, Report Of Navy Discloses" |
(The unidentified ship was the 3,664-ton tanker Rawleigh Warner, which was sunk by U-67 on June 23. All thirty-three men of the crew were lost in the ship.) |
Also note the report at bottom right: "Girl Pilot Faints And Planes Circles Crazily Over Airport For Hour - She Revives And Is Uninjured" |
(As the late, great Paul Harvey would say "here is a strange.") |
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June 29, 1942: Front page of the Tucson Daily Citizen, Tucson, Arizona. |
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Note the report in column 1: "Americans Are Given Warning On Rationing" |
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June 29, 1942: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California. |
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June 29, 1942: Front page of the Teltower Kreisblatt, Kreis Teltow, Brandenburg, Germany. |
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1. Kesselschlacht am Wolchow beendet. |
(Battle of the Volkhov ended.) |
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June 29, 1942: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Durchbruchsoffensive zur Entsetzung Leningrads gescheitert - Sowjetarmee am Wolchow vernichtet - 32.759 Gefangene und zahlreiches Kriegsmaterial. |
(Breakthrough offensive to relieve Leningrad failed - Soviet army destroyed on the Volkhov - 32,759 prisoners and numerous war material.) |
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Page published June 29, 2023 |
