World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Saturday Sept. 28, 1940
Day 394

Sept. 28, 1940: Front page of the Nottingham Evening Post, Nottingham, England.
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Sept. 28, 1940: Front page of the Evening Express, Liverpool, England.
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Sept. 28, 1940: Front page of the Derby Evening Telegraph, Derby, England.
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Note the report in column
(This report claims that on Sept. 27th the Germans lost 133 aircraft [an increase of 11 from yesterday's announcement] and that the British lost 34. Keeping the "Never Doubt" clause in mind; the Germans lost 53 aircraft in combat on Sept. 27th and R.A.F. Fighter Command lost 31.)
[See "Never Doubt British Air Claims" in The Daily Mail of Aug. 15, 1940.]


Sept. 28, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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Note the report in column 7: "H.M. Trawler Lost"
(The announcement from the Admiralty states that HM Trawler Loch Inver is overdue and presumed lost. To this day, the cause of the loss has not been determined and the wreck has not been found. A post war assessment by the Admiralty states the ship was possibly mined. But this is often the post war assessment when no other reason can be found. Another cause could just as easily be the case, but when there is no wreck, no survivors, no distress signal, no evidence at all of what happened, people still feel the need to give a reason.)


Sept. 28, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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Note the report in columns 4-5: "Scharnhorst Again A Target"
(The war diary from Scharnhorst states that there was an attack, but no bombs hit the ship or even fell close. Scharnhorst was at Deutsche Werke undergoing repairs from the damage received when hit by a torpedo from HMS Acasta on June. 8th.)


Sept. 28, 1940: Front page of the Daily Telegraph, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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Sept. 28, 1940: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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Note the report in column 4: "Japanese Terror In Shanghai"


Sept. 28, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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Sept. 28, 1940: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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Sept. 28, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands.
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Sept. 28, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.
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Sept. 28, 1940: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C.
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Sept. 28, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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(Click below for part eighteen 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 James Boyd.)


Sept. 28, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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Sept. 28, 1940: Front page of The Cedar Rapids Gazette, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
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Sept. 28, 1940: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California.
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Sept. 28, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany.
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1. England der USA-Hilfe durch den Pakt beraubt.
(England deprived of US air in pact.)
2. Nach heftigen Luftkämpfen 101 Flugzeuge abgeschossen.
(101 Aircraft shot down after fierce aerial battles.)


Sept. 28, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP.
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1. Deutschland-Italien-Japan in einer Front.
(Germany-Italy-JApan in one front.)
2. Der Bündnisblock der 250 Millionen.
(The alliance bloc of 250 million.)



   
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