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December 28, 1940: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England. |
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December 28, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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December 28, 1940: Front page of the Birmingham Gazette, Birmingham, England. |
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December 28, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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December 28, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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December 28, 1940: Front page of the Daily Telegraph, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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December 28, 1940: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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Note the report in column 5: "Japanese Concern Over Nauru Shelling" |
(This was the work of the German hilfskreuzer [auxiliary cruiser] Komet, and had nothing to do with the Japanese.) |
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December 28, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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Note the report at bottom center: "Former British Submarine Seal Being Used By German Navy Is Claim; Captured After Damage" |
(This report was true.
HMS Seal was captured on May 4th after being bombed by German aircraft. The boat was commissioned into the Kriegsmarine as U-B and used for training and research on current British equipment and weapons. It was taken out of commission on July 31, 1940 and scuttled off Kiel in May 1945, the wreck was raised and scrapped.) |
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December 28, 1940: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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December 28, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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December 28, 1940: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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Note the report in column 5: "Two Americans Lost In Sinking of Tanker Off Coast of Africa" |
(The tanker Charles Pratt was sunk by U-65 making it the first U.S. owned ship sunk by direct enemy action in World War II. The ship was U.S. owned, but had been transferred to Panama making it a neutral ship.) |
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December 28, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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December 28, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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December 28, 1940: Front page of The Helena Independent, Helena, Montana. |
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December 28, 1940: Front page of the San Mateo Times, San Mateo, California. |
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December 28, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. USA-Machenschaften um irische Häfen. |
(US machinations over Irish ports.) |
2. Anschlag gegen Regierung Ibn Saud mißglüskt. |
(Attack against Ibn Saud's government unsuccessful.) |
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December 28, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. SOS= Rufe serienweise. |
(SOS calls in series.) |
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Page published December 28, 2021 |
