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November 16, 1940: Front page of the Nottingham Evening Post, Nottingham, England. |
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Note the report in column 1: "Tanker Found Abandoned" |
(The ship had been torpedoed by the Italian submarine
Guglielmo Marconi on Nov. 9th. Vingaland, had been in convoy HX-84, the same convoy that was attacked by the German cruiser Admiral Scheer.) |
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November 16, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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Note the report in column 6: "Italians Claim Destroyer Sunk" |
(The report was false, no HM destroyer had been sunk.) |
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November 16, 1940: Front page of the Birmingham Gazette, Birmingham, England. |
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Note the headline: "Coventry - Our Guernica" |
Also note the report in column 8: "Italian Claim Not Confirmed" |
(This report claims that a Ramillies class battleship [should be Revenge class] had been hit with three torpedoes fired by the submarine Caproni [actually Pier Capponi.] This report, like the previous report of a sunken destroyer, was false.) |
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November 16, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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November 16, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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November 16, 1940: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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November 16, 1940: Front page of The News, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. |
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November 16, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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November 16, 1940: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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November 16, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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November 16, 1940: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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November 16, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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November 16, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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November 16, 1940: Front page of The Helena Independent, Helena, Montana. |
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November 16, 1940: Front page of the San Mateo Times, San Mateo, California. |
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November 16, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. Botschaft des Führers an die japanische Nation. |
9Message from the Führer to the Japanese nation.) |
2. Fernbomber-Erfolg 700km westliche Irlands. |
(Long-range bomber success 700km west of Ireland.) |
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November 16, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Vergeltung für München Coventry unter 530.000 kg Bomben begraben. |
(Retaliation for Munich - Coventry buried under 530 kg of bombs.) |
2. Englands Luftrüstungszentrum von 500 Kampf-Flugzeugen angegriffen und vernichtet. |
(England's air defense center attacked and destroyed by 500 combat aircraft.) |
Note the report at bottom left: "Drei Torpedotreffer auf britischem Schlachtschiff" |
(Three torpedoes hit British battleship.) |
[The Germans reporting the false Italian claim.] |
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Page published November 16, 2021 |