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August 23, 1940: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England. |
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Note the report in column 3: "R.A.F. Sink 4 Italian Warships" |
(The report claims that two submarines, a destroyer and a depot ship were sunk in an air raid on the Italian naval base at Bomba, Libya. Actually only the submarine Iride was sunk, if any other ships were damaged in the raid, they were not damaged enough to be removed from service.) |
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August 23, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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Note the report in column 3: "Italians Admit R.A.F. Activity" |
(The official Italian communique for today names the torpedo boat from yesterday's communique, which supposedly sank a British submarine, as the Papa. It also relates a dramatic account of the sinking. "The enemy submarine fired three torpedoes without hitting her. By rapid manoevuring the Italian ship darted towards the submarine with the intention of ramming her, at the same time dropped numerous depth charges. The submarine was irreparably damaged and she turned over keel upwards and then sank." There was just one slight difference between this account and the truth, no British, or any other submarines were sunk on this date. In the month of Aug. 1940 only 8 submarines were lost, 3 British, 3 German, 1 Italian and 1 Japanese.) |
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August 23, 1940: Front page of the Derby Evening Telegraph, Derby, England. |
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Note the report in column 2: "£1,000 Gift For Aircraft" |
(Lord Beaverbrook, Minister for Aircraft Production, announced that Mrs. J. E. Stanning made the generous donation.) |
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August 23, 1940: Front page of the Birmingham Gazette, Birmingham, England. |
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Note the report in column 2: "Petan To Give 800 Planes To Hitler" |
Also note the report in column 3: "Mayor Objects To Spitfire Fund" |
(Perhaps he should have waited until after the Petán report had been published to make his remarks.) |
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August 23, 1940: Front page of The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Mercury, Leeds, England. |
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Note the report in column 5: "No Polish State Again" |
(So said Hans Frank, the Nazi Governor-General of Poland. He was wrong, but not for lack of trying. He was tried at Nürnberg and hanged Oct. 16, 1946 for his crimes.) |
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August 23, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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August 23, 1940: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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August 23, 1940: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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Note the report at bottom left: "Times Tribute To Churchill" |
(A stirring tribute to the Prime Minister.) |
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August 23, 1940: Front page of the Medicine Hat News, Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada. |
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August 23, 1940: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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August 23, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands. |
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August 23, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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August 23, 1940: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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Note the report in column 7: "New Submachine Gun Reported by Inventor" |
(This report is about the M-42 sub-machine gun.) |
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August 23, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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August 23, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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August 23, 1940: Front page of The Kingsport Times, Kingsport, Tennessee. |
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Note the report in column 5: "Wizard Ousts High Klan Chief" |
(The Imperial Wizard in Atlanta, ordered the Grand Giant [Where do they get these names?] of New Jersey to be removed after the Klan and the German-American Bund had a joint rally a few days earlier.) |
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August 23, 1940: Front page of The Southern Jewish Weekly, Jacksonville, Florida. |
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Note the report in column 2: "Walled Ghetto Is Seen for Warsaw" |
Also note the report in column 2: "Soviet Police Arrest Jews" |
Also note the report in column 3: "A Predominantly Jewish City Soon To Be Judenrein" |
(The Polish city of Lodz was later chosen for the site of a huge Ghetto. By the end of the war only 10,000 Jews who had lived in Lodz were still alive. One clarification, Judenrein translates to Jew-pure, the correct word was Judenfrei.) |
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August 23, 1940: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California. |
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Note the report in columns 2-3: "Accident of Nature Turns Houston Girl, 5, to Adult" |
(As the late, great, Paul Harvey would say; "Here is a Strange." I have no way to confirm if this is true or a hoax.) |
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August 23, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. Angriffe auf Geleitzüge. |
(Attacks of convoys.) |
2. Verminung britischer Häfen fortgesetzt. |
(Mining of British ports continues.) |
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August 23, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Bomben auf 15 englische Flugplätze. |
(Bombing of 15 British airfields.) |
2. Die Luftwaffe weiter im Angriff auf Industrie-, Hafen- und Bahnanlagen. |
(The Luftwaffe continues to attack industries, ports and rail yards.) |
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Page published August 23, 2021 |