World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Sunday June 16, 1940
Day 290

June 16, 1940: Front page of The People, London, England.
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June 16, 1940: Front page of the Sunday Pictorial, London, England.
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June 16, 1940: Front page of the Sunday Telegraph, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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June 16, 1940: Front page of The Sunday Mail, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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June 16, 1940: Front page of The Sunday Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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June 16, 1940: Front page of The Sunday Star, Washington, D.C.
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Note the report in column 3: "Paris, Covered With Swastikas, Is A Dead City, Lochner Finds"


June 16, 1940: Front page of The Charleston Gazette, Charleston, West Virginia.
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Note the report at bottom: "Hitler Tells What He'll Do If He Wins - Declares American Fear Of Invasion Grotesque, Impossible - Says U.S. Help Can't Prevent Him From Winning - Wants To Smash British Capitalists, Not Empire"
Also note the report in column 2: "84 Indicted In Red Party Petition Case"
(More communists indicted for voting fraud.)
[Also see "State Communist Leader Indicted" in The Charleston Gazette for June 11, 1940.]


June 16, 1940: Front page of The Kingsport Times, Kingsport, Tennessee.
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Note the report in column 6: "Lindbergh Urges More American Military Bases"


June 16, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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Note the report in column 2: "U.S. On War's Brink Lindbergh Declares"


June 16, 1940: Front page of the Butte Montana Standard, Butte, Montana.
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June 16, 1940: Front page of The Escanaba Daily Press, Escanaba, Michigan.
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June 16, 1940: Front page of The Cedar Rapids Gazette, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
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June 16, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP.
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1. Festung Verdun in Deutscher Hand.
(Verdun fortress in German hands.)
2. Maginotlinie südlich Saarbrücken durchbrochen.
(Maginot Line south of Saarbrücken broken.)



   
Page published June 16, 2021