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April 26, 1941: Front page of the Nottingham Evening Post, Nottingham, England. |
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April 26, 1941: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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April 26, 1941: Front page of the Birmingham Gazette, Birmingham, England. |
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April 26, 1941: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales. |
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April 26, 1941: Front page of the Evening Telegraph and Post, Dundee, Scotland. |
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April 26, 1941: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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April 26, 1941: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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April 26, 1941: Front page of The News, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. |
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Note the report in columns 2-3: "Possible That Axis Has Partly Occupied Greenland" |
(Apart from a few weather stations which the Germans did set up on Greenland, there was never a Nazi invasion or occupation of Greenland.) |
Also note the report in columns 3-4: "Roosevelt Likens Lindbergh To Copper-Head" |
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April 26, 1941: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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April 26, 1941: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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April 26, 1941: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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April 26, 1941: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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Note the report in columns 1-2: "Captain Stands By and Saves His Ship, Torpedoed and Fired" |
(The tanker, Franche-Comté, had been in convoy HX-99 and was one of six ships in that convoy torpedoed by U-99. It was the only ship that survived. For his actions, the master, Leslie Clair Church, was awarded the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (Civil Division) in July. These were the last ships attacked by U-99. The boat was sunk the following day by HMS Walker, the commanding officer, Kapitänleutnant Otto Kretschmer, the top scoring U-boat commander of the Second World War, was taken prisoner.) |
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April 26, 1941: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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April 26, 1941: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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April 26, 1941: Front page of The Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada. |
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Note the report in column 6: "FDR Censures Col. Lindbergh" |
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April 26, 1941: Front page of the San Mateo Times, San Mateo, California. |
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April 26, 1941: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. Phantasien über deutsche Balkan-Verluste. |
(Fantasies about German losses in the Balkans.) |
Note the report in Col. 4: "Unvergänglicher Lorbeer" (Everlasting Laurels) |
[The German public is finally informed of the fates of two of its most famous U-boat commanders, Otto Kretschmer and Joachim Schepke. Kretschmer (U-99) was the most successful U-boat commander of World War II. He was captured when his U-99 was sunk on Mar. 17, 1941. Schepke (U-100) Was sunk the same day, but Schepke, the eleventh most successful U-boat commander of the war, did not survive. The Germans had yet to report the loss of their most famous U-boat commander, Günther Prien, who had been lost in his U-47 on or about Mar. 7th.] |
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April 26, 1941: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Die Thermopylen überwunden. |
(Thermopylae conquered.) |
2. Eine Flotte von 872 Schiffen eingebracht! - 1,9 Millionen Bruttoregistertonnen dienen nun Deutschland statt England. |
(Seized a fleet of 872 ships! - 1.9 million gross register tons are now serving Germany instead of England.)
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Page published April 26, 2022 |