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July 1, 1941: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England. |
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Note the report in column 3: "Motorists Must Now Keep Logs - One-Sixth Reduction in Basic Petrol Ration" |
July 1, 1941: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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July 1, 1941: Front page of the Evening Despatch, Birmingham, England. |
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Note the report in column 4: "Panzer Promotion" |
(Generalleutnant Erwin Rommel is promoted.) |
July 1, 1941: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales. |
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Note the report in column 4: "U.S. Nurses on Ship Reported Sunk. |
(The ship is identified as the Dutch Maarsden, but was in fact, the Maasdam. Which was sunk by U-564. There were two casualties, both were American Red Cross nurses, Ruth W. Breckenridge and Maxine C. Loomis. All the survivors were later picked up by Norwegian ships.) |
July 1, 1941: Front page of the Evening Telegraph and Post, Dundee, Scotland. |
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Note the report in column 3: "500 Rumanians Shot" |
(The Rumanian government executing people suspected of aiding, real or imagined, Soviet spies. As usual, most of the dead were Jews.) |
July 1, 1941: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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July 1, 1941: Front page of the Daily Telegraph, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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July 1, 1941: Front page of The News, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. |
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July 1, 1941: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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July 1, 1941: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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Note the report in column 5: "Twenty-Eight Workers Fired For Subversion" |
(28 workers at Mare Island Shipyard fired for subversive activities and associations.) |
July 1, 1941: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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July 1, 1941: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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July 1, 1941: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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Note the report in column 5: "Death For Sabotage" |
(Texas passes bill providing the death penalty for sabotaging property belonging to the U.S. Armed Forces.) |
July 1, 1941: Front page of The Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada. |
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July 1, 1941: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California. |
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Note the report at bottom right: "Nazi Airman Betters Record of 1918 Ace" |
(Werner Mölders officially credited with shooting down 82 aircraft, one more than Manfred von Richthofen, A.K.A. The Red Baron. Mölders had recently been awarded the Schwerter [Swords] to his Ritterkreuz [Knight's Cross] by Adolf Hitler.) |
July 1, 1941: Front page of the Teltower Kreisblatt, Kreis Teltow, Brandenburg, Germany. |
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Im Banne der deutschen Siege - Der gewaltige Eindruck großen deutschen Erfolge in der Welt. |
(Under the spell of the German victories - Powerful impressions of great German successes in the world.) |
2.
280 Sowjetflugzeuge am 30 Juni vernichtet.
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(280 Soviet aircraft destroyed on June 30.) |
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Zwischen Washington und Moskau.
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(Between Washington and Moscow.) |
July 1, 1941: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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Lemberg und Libau gefallen.
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(Lemberg und Libau have fallen.) |
[Lemberg is the German name for Lviv, Ukraine, Libau is the German name for Liepaja, Latvia.] |
2.
Im Atlantik wieder 50.000 BRT. versenkt. |
(Another 50,000 GRT. Sunk in the Atlantic.) |
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Moskaus Kriegsberichte im Stile Churchills. |
(Moscow's Churchill-style war reports.) |
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