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April 8, 1941: Front page of the Nottingham Evening Post, Nottingham, England. |
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April 8, 1941: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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April 8, 1941: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales. |
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April 8, 1941: Front page of the Evening Telegraph and Post, Dundee, Scotland. |
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April 8, 1941: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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Note the report in column 4: "Pilot On First Flight Sinks Destroyer" |
(Not true, no German destroyers or other German warships were sunk on this date.) |
April 8, 1941: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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April 8, 1941: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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April 8, 1941: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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April 8, 1941: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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Note the report in columns 7-8: "Ace U-Boat Captain Taken In Growing War On Subs" |
(The Admiralty releases the news that the top scoring U-boat commander of World War II, Otto Kretschmer, had been captured when his U-boat, U-99, was sunk.) |
April 8, 1941: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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Note the report in column 6: "Lone Ranger Killed in Auto Crash" |
April 8, 1941: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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April 8, 1941: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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Note the headline and and report in column 1: 'Report Missing Bomber Sighted - Think Bomber Down At Sea; Search Begun" |
(A Catalina PBY of Squadron VJ-4 crashed off Hog Island Light on Mar. 7, all ten crewmen were killed.) |
April 8, 1941: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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April 8, 1941: Front page of The Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada. |
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April 8, 1941: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California. |
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April 8, 1941: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. Abbruch diplomatischer Beziehungen zwischen England-Ungarn. |
(Diplomatic relations between England and Hungry broken off.) |
2. Serben-Regierung zieht sichnach Süden zurück. |
(Serbian government retreats to the south.) |
3. Rückwärts, rückwärts, Don Simowitsch. |
(Backwards, backwards,
Dusan Simovic.) |
April 8, 1941: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Blitzartiger Angriff über die steirische Grenze |
(Lightning attack across the Styrian border.) |
2. An allen Punkten die befohlenen Tagesziele erreicht. |
(All daily targets ordered achieved.) |
3. Zäher Widerstand der Serben niedergekämpft. |
(Serbian resistance defeated.) |
Page published April 8, 2022 |