World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Saturday May 17, 1941
Day 625

May 17, 1941: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England.
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May 17, 1941: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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May 17, 1941: Front page of the Birmingham Gazette, Birmingham, England.
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May 17, 1941: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales.
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May 17, 1941: Front page of the Evening Telegraph and Post, Dundee, Scotland.
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May 17, 1941: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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Note the report in column 5: "Troops Killed In France Total 13,000"


May 17, 1941: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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May 17, 1941: Front page of The News, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
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May 17, 1941: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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Note the report in column 2: "6,065 Killed In Britain, April By Nazi Bombs"
(The figure includes 680 children under 16.)


May 17, 1941: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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May 17, 1941: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.
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Note the report in column 3: "British Fliers To Be Trained In United States"


May 17, 1941: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C.
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May 17, 1941: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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May 17, 1941: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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May 17, 1941: Front page of The Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada.
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May 17, 1941: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California.
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May 17, 1941: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany.
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1. In USA neue Panikmache.
(New scaremongering in the USA.)
2. Prinz von Savoyen zum König Kroatiens ausersehen.
(Prince of Savoy chosen to be King of Croatia.)


May 17, 1941: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP.
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1. Dünkirchen oder kein Dünkirchen?
(Dunkirk or no Dunkirk?)
2. Widersprüche ohne ende über Englands Balkanverluste.
(Endless contradictions about England's losses in the Balkans.)



   
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