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February 27, 1941: Front page of the Nottingham Evening Post, Nottingham, England. |
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February 27, 1941: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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Note the report in column 6: "Unrest In Holland - Nazis Return To Work Order" |
February 27, 1941: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales. |
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February 27, 1941: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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Note the report in column 8: "U-Boat Ace of Last War" |
(Vizeadmiral Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière, legendary commander of U-35, was killed in aircraft accident at Le Bourget airport near Paris, France on Feb. 24. He was the top scoring submarine commander of all time sinking 195 ships for a total of over 455,000 tons. He also damaged a further 8 ships for over 34,000 tons.) |
February 27, 1941: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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February 27, 1941: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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Note the report in column 2: "Death To Dutch Strikers" |
Also note the report in column 6: "Battleship Abandoned" |
(Report states that an Italian battleship damaged in the Taranto raid was determined to be a total loss to the Italian navy. This was the battleship Conte di Cavour, which never returned to active service and was scrapped in 1946.) |
February 27, 1941: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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February 27, 1941: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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Note the report in column 6: "Sabotage Attempts In Montreal" |
(79 fire extinguishers at an unidentified manufacturing plant drained and refilled with gasoline.) |
February 27, 1941: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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February 27, 1941: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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February 27, 1941: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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Note the headline report: "Byron Dead, Rickenbacker Hurt In Airliner Crash Near Atlanta; Toll IS 7 Killed and 9 Injured" |
(Famed Great War ace, Eddie Rickenbacker hurt in plane crash. He would be in another aircraft mishap in Oct. 1942 when a B-17 he was in ditched in the Pacific and spent 24 days in a life raft before he and six others were rescued. Secretary of War Henry Stimson had sent him on a tour of air bases in the Pacific Theater of Operations to review both living conditions and operations, but also to deliver personally a secret message of rebuke to General Douglas MacArthur from the President for negative public comments MacArthur had made about the administration and disparaging cables sent to General George C. Marshall.) |
February 27, 1941: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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February 27, 1941: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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February 27, 1941: Front page of The Lowell Sun, Lowell, Massachusetts. |
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February 27, 1941: Front page of the San Mateo Times, San Mateo, California. |
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February 27, 1941: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. Eden auf der Suche nach Blutspendern. |
(Eden in search of blood donors.) |
2. Wiederholung des Norwegenabenteuers in Saloniki? |
(Repeat of the Norway adventure in Thessaloniki?) |
February 27, 1941: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Ein längst fälliges Geständnis: Unsere Luftwaffen=Berichte sind erlogen! |
(A long overdue confession: Our Air Force reports are lies!) |
2. Verantwortlicher britischer Offizier enthüllt die offizielle Londoner Lügentaktik. |
(British officer in charge exposes official London lying tactics.) |
Page published February 27, 2022 |