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May 12, 1941: Front page of the Nottingham Evening Post, Nottingham, England. |
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May 12, 1941: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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May 12, 1941: Front page of the Birmingham Gazette, Birmingham, England. |
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May 12, 1941: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales. |
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Note the report in column 8: "Raider's Supply Ship Caught" |
(The German passenger/cargo ship Coburg and the captured Norwegian tanker Ketty Brøvig were being used by the German Hilfskreuzer [auxiliary cruiser] Atlantis, both ships scuttled before they could be boarded, which the Admiralty did not disclose.) |
May 12, 1941: Front page of the Evening Telegraph and Post, Dundee, Scotland. |
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May 12, 1941: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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May 12, 1941: Front page of the Daily Telegraph, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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May 12, 1941: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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May 12, 1941: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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May 12, 1941: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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May 12, 1941: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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May 12, 1941: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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May 12, 1941: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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May 12, 1941: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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Note the photo at top center: "Personal! For Adolf From The RAF" |
(Shows a huge bomb and an aircraft, but this is an optical illusion or just a complete fabrication. |
May 12, 1941: Front page of The Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada. |
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May 12, 1941: Front page of the San Mateo Times, San Mateo, California. |
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May 12, 1941: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. London unter vergeltendem Bombenhagel. |
(London under retaliatory hail of bombs.) |
May 12, 1941: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Es bleibt dabei: Für jede Britenbombe hundert deutsche! |
(The fact remains: for every British bomb, a hundred from the Germans!) |
2. Über hunderttausend Brandbomben auf London. |
(Over a hundred thousand firebombs on London.) |
3. Ein neuer harter Vergeltungsschlag der deutschen Luftwaffe. |
(A new hard retaliatory strike by the German Luftwaffe.) |
Page published May 12, 2022 |