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August 31, 1940: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England. |
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August 31, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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Note the report in column 3: "Yesterday's Bag 62" |
(Official number released by the Air Ministry. Keeping the "Never Doubt" clause in mind; on Aug. 30, 1940 the Germans lost a total of 43 aircraft, including 8 in non-combat incidents which the British Air Ministry could not have been aware of.) |
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August 31, 1940: Front page of the Birmingham Gazette, Birmingham, England. |
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Note the report in column 7: "Child Starts Her Own Spitfire Fund" |
Also note the report in column 2: "Purring Cat Saved WIth Seamen" |
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August 31, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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August 31, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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Note the report in columns 1-2: "Spitfire Fund Over £2000 Mark" |
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August 31, 1940: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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Note the headline: "62 German Planes For Nineteen" |
(The report claims that 62 German aircraft were shot down on Friday, Aug. 31st. and that the British lost only 19. The Germans lost 31 aircraft in combat, 4 reported as missing and 8 in non-combat incidents. The British lost 17 in combat, 3 in non-combat incidents and 3 were considered total losses.) |
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August 31, 1940: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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Note the report in column 4: "Petrol License Warning" |
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August 31, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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August 31, 1940: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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August 31, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands. |
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August 31, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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Note the report in column 3: "Jewish War Veterans Hear Saltonstall - Told Hitler Plan Debases Men to Beast's Level" |
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August 31, 1940: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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August 31, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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August 31, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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August 31, 1940: Front page of The Wisconsin State Journal, Madison, Wisconsin. |
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Note the report in columns 1-3: "Dr. Bowman Quiets Paralyses Fears, But Urges Precautions" |
(This report questions the effectiveness of closing public schools during the polio epidemic. They say that children, if not in school, will gather at other places and spread the disease. They also say that they can monitor the children closer if they are in school.) |
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August 31, 1940: Front page of the Manitowoc Herald-Times, Manitowoc, Wisconsin. |
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Note the report at bottom left: "Paralysis Victims Rushed To Hospitals By Airplane" |
(Michigan Governor, Lauren D. Dickinson, put a state airplane at the disposal of health officials to transport polio victims.) |
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August 31, 1940: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California. |
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August 31, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. 98 Abschüsse - Truppenlager bombardiert. |
(98 Kills - Troop camps bombed.) |
[The British lost 17 in combat, 3 in non-combat incidents and 3 were considered total losses.] |
3. Ein Jahr deutsche Kriegsführung - ein Jahr welthistorischer Sieg. |
(One year of German warfare - One year of historical world victory.) |
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August 31, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Schiedsspruch der Achse zwischen Ungarn und Rumänien. |
(Arbitration by the Axis between Hungary and Romania.) |
2. Das letzte territoriale Problem im Donauraum seiner Lösung zugeführt. |
(The last territorial problem in the Danube region has been solved.) |
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Page published August 31, 2021 |
