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May 19, 1941: Front page of the Nottingham Evening Post, Nottingham, England. |
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May 19, 1941: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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May 19, 1941: Front page of the Birmingham Gazette, Birmingham, England. |
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Note the report in column 5: "Trawler, Drifter Sunk" |
(Both ships were sunk by German aircraft off the Humber. Temp. Skipper Peter Coull, RNR awarded OBE and Ordinary Signalman James Bush Mentioned in Despatches (Posthumously) For bravery and coolness. Both of HMS Susarion.) |
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May 19, 1941: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales. |
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May 19, 1941: Front page of the Evening Telegraph and Post, Dundee, Scotland. |
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May 19, 1941: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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May 19, 1941: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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May 19, 1941: Front page of The News, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. |
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Note the report in column 4: "Massacres Of Serbians" |
(The Istanbul correspondent of The Times writes that the Germans, Hungarians and Bulgarians are competing in a massacre of the Serbs in Yugoslavia. They estimate that at least 50,000 have been executed so far.) |
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May 19, 1941: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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May 19, 1941: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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May 19, 1941: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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Note the photos at top right: "Navy Pilot Saves Plane In Crash Landing" |
(The headline and the caption describes a series of photos of a plane crash, yet the photos show a ship sinking.) |
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May 19, 1941: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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Note the report in column 1: "Fate of 322 on Sunk Liner Mystery; 138 Americans on Egyptian Ship" |
[The report is concluded here.] |
(The Zamzam was sunk on Apr. 17, 1941 by the German Hilfskreuzer [auxiliary cruiser] Atlantis. There were no casualties in the sinking, but one man died of injuries a few days later.) |
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May 19, 1941: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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May 19, 1941: Front page of The Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada. |
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May 19, 1941: Front page of the San Mateo Times, San Mateo, California. |
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May 19, 1941: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. Anmaßende "Botschaften" aus Richtung Amerika. |
(Pretentious "messages" from America.) |
2. Harte Schläge der Luftwaffe. |
(Hard hits from the Luftwaffe.) |
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May 19, 1941: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Roosevelt will die Plutokratie verewigen. |
(Roosevelt wants to perpetuate plutocracy.) |
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Page published May 19, 2022 |