World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Monday May 12, 1941
Day 620

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.)



   
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