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October 6, 1940: Front page of The People, London, England. |
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Note the report at top right: "23 Raiders Down In Day Battle" |
(Keeping the "Never Doubt" clause in mind, the Germans lost 12 aircraft in to combat on Oct. 5, 1940. The report also states that 9 R.A.F. fighters were missing, but I can find only 1 recorded loss for Fighter Command on Oct. 5, 1940.) |
Also note the report in column 8: "U-Boat Bombed Out Of Water" |
(The last U-boat that sunk, in part, by a Sunderland aircraft was U-26 on July 1, 1940, but the details of the loss do not match this report. There was an Italian submarine sunk on Sept. 30th, in part by a Sunderland, but that was in the Mediterranean, not the Atlantic as this report states. Also, in both of the above cases, the crews of the submarines were saved, this report seems to indicate that none of the U-boat's crew got out of the boat. One has to conclude that the report from the pilot was erroneous.) |
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October 6, 1940: Front page of the Sunday Pictorial, London, England. |
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October 6, 1940: Front page of The Sunday Mail, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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October 6, 1940: Front page of The Sunday Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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October 6, 1940: Front page of The Sunday Star, Washington, D.C. |
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Note the report in column 2: "Hopes Adopt Child" |
(Bob Hope and his wife adopt a baby boy.) |
Also note the report in column 7: "200 Spee Men Reported To Have Fled Into Chile" |
Note the report in column 6: "Reds Off Georgia Ballot" |
(Georgia's Secretary of State, John B. Wilson, refused to certify the 12 communist electors for Georgia's general election on the grounds that "the communist party seeks to overthrow our constitutional form of government." I wonder if anyone today would have the courage to do this? It would take a much larger conversation to decide if his action was unconstitutional in itself, which I think it might be.) |
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October 6, 1940: Front page of The Charleston Gazette, Charleston, West Virginia. |
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October 6, 1940: Front page of The Escanaba Daily Press, Escanaba, Michigan. |
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Note the report in column 7: "Arkansas Girl, 21, Sneezes Three Days" |
(As the late, great, Paul Harvey would say "Here is a Strange.") |
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October 6, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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Note the report in column 3: "Jews Ousted" |
(Anti-Semitic law put into effect in Rumania. This is what real oppression looks like.) |
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October 6, 1940: Front page of The Cedar Rapids Gazette, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. |
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October 6, 1940: Front page of The Helena Independent, Helena, Montana. |
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Note the headline: "Invasion of Britain Appears Imminent" |
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October 6, 1940: Front page of the Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada. |
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October 6, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Auch der englische Nebel versagt. |
(The English fog also falls.) |
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Page published October 6, 2021 |