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November 1, 1940: Front page of the Nottingham Evening Post, Nottingham, England. |
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November 1, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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Note the photo at bottom left: "New Aircraft Carrier" |
(The unnamed ship is HMS Illustrious.) |
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November 1, 1940: Front page of the Derby Evening Telegraph, Derby, England. |
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November 1, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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Note the photo at top of Queen Elizabeth. |
(Just in case the German spies did not notice this giant ship in New York, the press announced it to the world. It was considerate of the press to let the enemy know she was getting ready to sail.) |
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November 1, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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Note the report in columns 1-4: "Tornadic Squall Strikes Sydney" |
Also note the report in column 3: Nine Dead in Lost Airliner" |
(Walter C. Kent of Kentwood, Louisiana, was flying a civilian aircraft for the China National Aviation Corp. when his aircraft was shot down by the Japanese. According to earlier reports, this happened one day short of his 35th birthday.) |
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November 1, 1940: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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Note the report in columns 5-6: "Horror At Sea In Open Boat" |
(The first reports of the terrible ordeal endured by Wilbert Roy Widdecombe and Robert George Tapscott, the only two survivors of the SS Anglo Saxon, The ship was sunk on Aug. 21st. by the German hilfskreuzer (auxiliary cruiser) Widder. All of the other 39 men perished.) |
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November 1, 1940: Front page of The News, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. |
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November 1, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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Note the report at bottom center: "70 Days In Lifeboat" |
Another report about the survivors of the SS Anglo Saxon.) |
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November 1, 1940: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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Note the story at center: "War Beneath the Waves - They Grin At Death And Play Checkers" |
(The headline writer obviously was trying to bolster the Royal Navy submarine service by writing this nonsense. Just talk to any submariner who ever endured a depth charge attack, and they will tell you they were terrified. I have a great respect for those men who went to war in ships, but the men who went to war in submarines deserve a special respect. This story is mostly about a war patrol of HMS Sealion, although the author incorrectly spells it Sea Lion.) |
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November 1, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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November 1, 1940: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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November 1, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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November 1, 1940: Front page of The Helena Independent, Helena, Montana. |
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Note the report in columns 2-3: "Chamberlain Said On His Way To California To Recuperate His Health" |
(This Associated Press report had been denied hours before by the British, see column 4 of The Daily Mail above.) |
Also note the report in column 4: "Wife Of Red Leader Will Be Deported" |
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November 1, 1940: Front page of The Southern Jewish Weekly, Jacksonville, Florida. |
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November 1, 1940: Front page of the Oakland Tribune, Oakland, California. |
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November 1, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. In Sturm und Regen vorwärts im Pindusgebiet. |
(Forward in storm and rain in the Pindus area.) |
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November 1, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Ein neues englisches Priesterwort Zerstört den Kölner Dam. |
(A new English priestly word destroy the Köln dam.) |
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Page published November 1, 2021 |
