World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Saturday, February 24, 1940
Day 177

February 24, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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February 24, 1940: Front page of The Midland Daily Telegraph, Coventry, England.
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February 24, 1940: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England.
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February 24, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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February 24, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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February 24, 1940: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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February 24, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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February 24, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands.
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February 24, 1940: Front page of the Butte Montana Standard, Butte, Montana.
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Note the report in column 2: "Four German U-Boats Sunk"
(In fact only 1 U-boat, U-53, had been sunk.)


February 24, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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February 24, 1940: Front page of The Lowell Sun, Lowell, Massachusetts.
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February 24, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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February 24, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.
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February 24, 1940: Front page of the Teltower Kriesblatt, Teltow, Germany.
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1. Deutschland verlangt totale Neutralität.
(Germany demands total neutrality.)


February 24, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany.
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1. Lebhafte Fliegertätigkeit im Westen
(Lively air activity in the west.)



   
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