World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Thursday October 10, 1940
Day 406

October 10, 1940: Front page of the Nottingham Evening Post, Nottingham, England.
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October 10, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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October 10, 1940: Front page of the Derby Evening Telegraph, Derby, England.
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October 10, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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October 10, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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October 10, 1940: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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Note the report in columns 5-6: "New Submarine Kill To Our Navy"
(The report describes the action between HMAS Stuart and a Sunderland Flying-Boat (L-2166 of 230 Squadron R.A.F. and the Italian submarine Gondar.)


October 10, 1940: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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October 10, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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October 10, 1940: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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October 10, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.
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October 10, 1940: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C.
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October 10, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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October 10, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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October 10, 1940: Front page of The Helena Independent, Helena, Montana.
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October 10, 1940: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California.
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October 10, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany.
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1. In wahrer Wut rasten die Angriff.
(True anger of the attack.)
2. Dramatische Schilderung eines Amerikaners über die Ereignisse der letzten Nacht in London.
(An American gives a dramatic account of the events in London yesterday.)


October 10, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP.
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1. London keine Minute ohne deutsche Flieger.
(Not a minute in London without German aircraft overhead.)



   
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