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October 15, 1940: Front page of the Nottingham Evening Post, Nottingham, England. |
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October 15, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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Note the report in column 7: "Spitfire Moonraker" |
(A £5,000 gift towards the purchase of a Spitfire, which will be named Wiltshire Moonraker No. 1.) |
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October 15, 1940: Front page of the Birmingham Gazette, Birmingham, England. |
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October 15, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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October 15, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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October 15, 1940: Front page of The News, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. |
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October 15, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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Note the headline at very top: "H.M.S. Ajax Of Graf Spee Fame, Sinks Two Italian Destroyers, Cripples Third" |
(In the battle, two Italian torpedo boats, Ariel and Airone were sunk outright and the destroyer, Artigliere, was taken in tow by another Italian warship, but was put adrift when other British warships approached. Artigliere surrendered to HMS York, but scuttled before the British could take control of the ship.) |
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October 15, 1940: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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October 15, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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Note the report in column 3: "Ten Destroyers Head Seaward" |
(Someone at the Associated Press just making sure the German were informed of the movement of the British ships.) |
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October 15, 1940: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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October 15, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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October 15, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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October 15, 1940: Front page of The Charleston Gazette, Charleston, West Virginia. |
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Note the report in column 6: "Lindbergh Raps Nation's Leaders'" |
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October 15, 1940: Front page of The Helena Independent, Helena, Montana. |
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Note the report in column 7: "Poland To Be On Shortest Rations Soon" |
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October 15, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. Bomben auf Berlin Krankenhaus. |
(Berlin's Hospital Bombed.) |
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October 15, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Die Nation dankt dem Landvolk. |
(The nation thanks the rural people.) |
2. Darré und Dr. Goebbels empfingen die Ehrenabordnung deutscher Bauern in Berlin. |
(Darré and Dr. Goebbels great the honorary delegation of German farmers in Berlin.) |
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Page published October 15, 2021 |
