World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Thursday, September 21, 1939
Day 21

September 21, 1939: Front page of The Midland Daily Telegraph, Coventry, England.
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(Note reports about the passenger ship Bremen in several of the papers of the day. Bremen was a famous German passenger liner, which the Allies wanted to capture. They never did, Bremen sailed to Russia and then to Germany where she was soon destroyed by a fire.)


September 21, 1939: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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September 21, 1939: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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September 21, 1939: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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September 21, 1939: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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September 21, 1939: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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September 21, 1939: Front page of Het Volksdagblad, Amsterdam, Netherlands. (Dutch communist newspaper.)
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September 21, 1939: Front page of The Salt Lake Tribune, Salt Lake City, Utah.
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September 21, 1939: Front page of the Somerset Daily American, Somerset, Pennsylvania.
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September 21, 1939: Front page of the Butte Montana Standard, Butte, Montana.
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Note the report in column 6: "Henry Ford Declares He's Opposed To Any Tampering With U.S. Neutrality Act"


September 21, 1939: Front page of the Oshkosh Daily Northwestern, Oshkosh, Wisconsin.
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September 21, 1939: Front page of the Teltower Kreisblatt, Teltow District, Germany.
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1. 170000 Gefangene im Weichselbogen. Uebergabe starker polnischer Kräfte auch im Süden und bei Gdingen.
(170,000 prisoners in the Vistula bend area. Strong Polish forces transfer south toward Gdynia.)


   
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