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May 29, 1941: Front page of the Nottingham Evening Post, Nottingham, England. |
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May 29, 1941: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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May 29, 1941: Front page of the Birmingham Gazette, Birmingham, England. |
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Note the report in column 6: "Submarine Usk Is Lost" |
(HMS Usk sailed from Malta on Apr. 19, 1941 and never returned. To this day, the cause of the loss has not been determined.) |
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May 29, 1941: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales. |
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Note the report in columns 4-5: "Big Troopship Torpedoed" |
(HMS Upholder sank the Italian passenger ship Conte Rosso, with the loss of more than 1,200 troops. Upholder also torpedoed the French freighter (not tanker) Capitaine Damiani, but the ship did not sink.) |
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May 29, 1941: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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Note the report in columns 6-7: "Bismarck Crew All Down" |
(Actually there were 115 survivors.) |
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May 29, 1941: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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May 29, 1941: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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May 29, 1941: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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May 29, 1941: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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May 29, 1941: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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May 29, 1941: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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May 29, 1941: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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May 29, 1941: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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Note the report in column 6: "Schmeling Is Dead In Crete Battle, Claim" |
(Former world heavyweight champion, Max Schmeling, reportedly killed in Crete. He had been part of the German parachute troops dropped into Crete and had reportedly been captured. The claim is that he was shot after seizing a rifle and trying to escape.) |
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May 29, 1941: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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May 29, 1941: Front page of The Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada. |
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May 29, 1941: Front page of the San Mateo Times, San Mateo, California. |
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May 29, 1941: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. 52 000 BRT im Uebersee-Kreuzerkrieg versenkt. |
(52,000 BRT sunk in the cruiser war overseas.) |
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May 29, 1941: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Der Heldenkampf der, Bismarck - Von sechzehn britischen Kriegsschiffen überwältigt. |
(The heroic fight of the Bismarck - Overwhelmed by sixteen British warships.) |
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Page published May 29, 2022 |