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Sept. 13, 1940: Front page of the Nottingham Evening Post, Nottingham, England. |
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Sept. 13, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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Sept. 13, 1940: Front page of the Birmingham Gazette, Birmingham, England. |
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Sept. 13, 1940: Front page of the Evening Telegraph and Post, Dundee, Scotland. |
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Sept. 13, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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Note the report at bottom left: "Nazi Landing Repulsed in August? and the report in columns 4-5: "Nazis Prepare For Invasion: Ships On Move" |
(Neither report was accurate.) |
Also note the report at bottom right: "Spitfire Fund £5721 After 17 Days" |
Sept. 13, 1940: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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Sept. 13, 1940: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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Sept. 13, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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Sept. 13, 1940: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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Sept. 13, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands. |
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Sept. 13, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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Sept. 13, 1940: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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Note the report in column at top right: "F.B.I. Probes Blast Fatal to 35 At Powder Plant" |
Sept. 13, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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(Click below for part five of "Our Country" a twenty-four part series, written by twenty-four different authors, describing what America means to them. Today's piece was written by Mary Roberts Rinehart.) |
Sept. 13, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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Sept. 13, 1940: Front page of The Lowell Sun, Lowell, Massachusetts. |
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Note the headline: "Royalty Trapped In Shattered Palace" |
(As usual with the Lowell Sun, the headline is over the top.) |
Sept. 13, 1940: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California. |
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Sept. 13, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. Deutsche Küstenbatterien vertrieben leichte feindliche Seestreitkräfte vor Boulogne. |
(German coastal batteries drove enemy light naval forces away from Boulogne.) |
Sept. 13, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Pulver = und Waffenfabriten schwer getroffen. |
(Powder and arms manufacturers badly hit.) |
2. Am Mittwoch wieder 80 Feindflugzeuge vernichtet - Ein Zerstörer und vier Handleschiffe in Brand geschossen - Unsere U-Boote versenkten 47.000 BRT. |
(On Wednesday 80 enemy aircraft destroyed again - a destroyer and four merchant ships set a blaze - our U-boats sank 47,000 GRT.) |
Page published Sept. 13, 2021 |