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October 21, 1940: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England. |
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October 21, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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October 21, 1940: Front page of the Birmingham Gazette, Birmingham, England. |
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October 21, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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October 21, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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October 21, 1940: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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October 21, 1940: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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Note the report in column 7: "Jews Want Britain to Form Jewish Army" |
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October 21, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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October 21, 1940: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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October 21, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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October 21, 1940: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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October 21, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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Note the report in columns 2-4: "Six Die As Pilot Trys To Pluck Falling Body Of Friend From Air With Plane" |
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October 21, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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Note the report in column 6: "200 Drowned - Floods In France Cause Great Damage" |
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October 21, 1940: Front page of The Helena Independent, Helena, Montana. |
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October 21, 1940: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California. |
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October 21, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. Verluste und Schäden wachsen ständig. |
(Losses and damage continue increase.) |
2. Fünf Sonntagsalarme in Englands Huptstadt. |
(Five alarms on Sunday in England's capital.) |
Note the report at bottom center: "Prien - der erste Seewolf" |
(Prien - The first Seawolf.) |
[The official announcement that the Führer has awarded Kapitänleutnant Günther Prien the Oak Leaves for the Knights Cross. "Eichenlaub zum Ritterkreuz."] |
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October 21, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Innerhalb von zwei Tagen verlor England 327.000 BRT. |
(England lost 327,000 GRT. in two days.) |
[This is referring to the attack on convoy SC-7, in which 20 ships were sunk, but the total tonnage lost was 79, 592, not over 300,000.] |
2. In der Nacht zum Sonntag wieder 17 Dampfer! |
(On Sunday night, another 17 steamers lost.) |
[While the attack on SC-7 was a great success, the number of losses on Sunday was only 2 ships, not 17.] |
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Page published October 21, 2021 |