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Sept. 19, 1940: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England. |
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Sept. 19, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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Sept. 19, 1940: Front page of the Derby Evening Telegraph, Derby, England. |
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Note the report in columns 2-3: "Destroyer Blown Up In Pounded Port" |
(The report claims that a German destroyer was blown up at Cherbourg, but the only German warship lost on this day was the torpedo boat T-3, which was bombed and sunk at Le Havre. T-3 was raised and repaired, but sunk again on Mar. 14, 1945 by a mine.) |
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Sept. 19, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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Sept. 19, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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Note the report in column 7: "Liliputian State Declares War on Britain" |
(After formally ending its 23-year war with Germany, San Marino, an independent state within Italy, turned its ire and the full force of its 989 man standing army, against Great Britain.) |
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Sept. 19, 1940: Front page of the Daily Telegraph, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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Sept. 19, 1940: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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Sept. 19, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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Sept. 19, 1940: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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Sept. 19, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands. |
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Sept. 19, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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Sept. 19, 1940: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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Sept. 19, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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Note the photo at bottom right: "Huge New Super Bomber Nears Completion" |
(The bomber, which is named as the 8-19 in the report, was actually the Douglas XB-19. This was the only one ever built, and it was scrapped in 1949.) |
(Click below for part ten 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 Gladys Hasty Carroll.) |
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Sept. 19, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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Note the report in columns 6-7: "Secret Weapon Used In Air Raids" |
(It was not, as the headline would have you believe, a "secret weapon" but just a large bomb previously unknown to the British. It was probably an SC-1000 (A.K.A. Hermann Bomb) which the Germans had developed.) |
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Sept. 19, 1940: Front page of the Butte Montana Standard, Butte, Montana. |
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Sept. 19, 1940: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California. |
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Sept. 19, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. Britischer Kindermord in Bethel. |
(British child murderer in Bethel.) |
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Sept. 19, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Geit 1.August 2096 Britenflugzeuge vernichtet. |
(Since August 1st 2,096 British aircraft destroyed.) |
[I do not have time to calculate the exact figure, but I can assure you that the number of British aircraft losses was nowhere near that number.] |
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Page published Sept. 19, 2021 |
