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March 20, 1941: Front page of the Nottingham Evening Post, Nottingham, England. |
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[Historical note: On this day,
Under Secretary of State Sumner Wells informed the Soviet Ambassador, Constantine Oumansky that Germany would invade the Soviet Union within two months. This was based on signals intelligence, mostly from breaking the Japanese diplomatic codes and messages sent from Baron Oshima, the Japanese Ambassador in Berlin. The information was accurate, but the invasion was postponed by a month by Hitler. He invaded Yugoslavia, which caused a month-long delay for the invasion of the Soviet Union. The delay may have cost Hitler the war. Delaying the invasion by a month caused the unprepared Germans to get caught in the Russian winter.] |
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March 20, 1941: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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March 20, 1941: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales. |
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March 20, 1941: Front page of the Evening Telegraph and Post, Dundee, Scotland. |
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March 20, 1941: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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Note the photo at bottom: "Was Once Given Up For Lost" |
(HMS Thunderbolt, which was originally named HMS Thetis, had sunk on June 1, 1939. The boat was in the news today for sinking an Italian submarine. This was true, but it was not "recently" as the report states. The submarine, Capitano Tarantini, was sunk by Thunderbolt on Dec. 15, 1940. Sadly on Mar. 14, 1943, Thunderbolt would be lost again, this time forever.) |
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March 20, 1941: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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March 20, 1941: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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March 20, 1941: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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March 20, 1941: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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March 20, 1941: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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March 20, 1941: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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March 20, 1941: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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March 20, 1941: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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March 20, 1941: Front page of The Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada. |
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March 20, 1941: Front page of the San Mateo Times, San Mateo, California. |
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March 20, 1941: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. Erste USA-Warensendung nach Annahme des Hilfsgesetzes versenkt! |
(First U.S. shipment sunk after passage of relief bill!) |
2. Wieder Großangriff auf London. |
(Another great attack on London.) |
3. Ropllender Angriff durch sechs Stunden. |
(Rolling attack lasting six hours.) |
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March 20, 1941: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Pausenloser Nachtangriff auf den englischen Lebensmittelhafen Hull. |
(Uninterrupted night raids on the English food center of Hull.) |
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Page published March 20, 2022 |