World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Friday May 31, 1940
Day 274

May 31, 1940: Front page of The Midland Daily Telegraph, Coventry, England.
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May 31, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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May 31, 1940: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England.
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May 31, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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May 31, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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May 31, 1940: Front page of the Daily Telegraph, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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May 31, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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May 31, 1940: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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May 31, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands.
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May 31, 1940: Front page of The Brainerd Daily Dispatch, Brainerd, Minnesota.
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Note the report in column 3: "Hitler Reward Offer Expires"


May 31, 1940: Front page of the Syracuse Herald-Journal, Syracuse, New York.
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May 31, 1940: Front page of The Kingsport Times, Kingsport, Tennessee.
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May 31, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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May 31, 1940: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California.
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May 31, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany.
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1. Haupttiel unserer Flandern-Divisionen jetzt für neue Aufgaben frei!
(Main part of our Flanders division free for other assignments!)


May 31, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP.
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1. Bomber zerschlagen das flüchtende Britenheer.
(Bombers smash the retreating British army.)
2. Die Vernichtungsschlacht in Flandern geht ihrem Ende entgegen.
(The battle of annihilation in Flanders coming to an end.)



   
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