World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Tuesday, July 8, 1941
Day 677

July 8, 1941: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England.
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Note the report in column 2: "Woolton Says You'll Have 4 Eggs Each"


July 8, 1941: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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July 8, 1941: Front page of the Evening Despatch, Birmingham, England.
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Note the report in columns 3-4: "The Woolton Raspberry"


July 8, 1941: Front page of The Evening News And Southern Daily Mail, Portsmouth and Southsea, England.
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July 8, 1941: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales.
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July 8, 1941: Front page of the Evening Telegraph and Post, Dundee, Scotland.
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July 8, 1941: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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July 8, 1941: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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July 8, 1941: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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July 8, 1941: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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Note the report in column 6: "Nazi Submarine Is Destroyed By British Gunboat"
(The unsourced report, from La Linea, Spain, claims a British gunboat sank a U-boat in the Strait of Gibraltar. They even state that the bodies of two German sailors were recovered. However, no German submarines were lost in July of 1941 and I have no record of any submarine being sunk on or about this date.)


July 8, 1941: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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July 8, 1941: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.
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July 8, 1941: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C.
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July 8, 1941: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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Note the report in column 7: "Planes Sink U-boat"
(This unsourced report, from La Linea, Spain, claims it was British bombers that sank the U-boat off Gibraltar. It also states that two German sailors were taken prisoner.)


July 8, 1941: Front page of The San Antonio Light, San Antonio, Texas.
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July 8, 1941: Front page of The Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada.
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Note the photos: "Will Iceland Move Halt This Tragedy?
(This series of photos was earlier identified to be the sinking of the freighter Kemmendine, which was sunk by the German Hilfskreuzer [auxiliary cruiser] Atlantis on July 13, 1941.)


July 8, 1941: Front page of the San Mateo Times, San Mateo, California.
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July 8, 1941: Front page of the Teltower Kreisblatt, Kreis Teltow, Brandenburg, Germany.
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1. GPU.-Listen für deutsche Ostgebiete.
(GPU. Lists for German Eastern Territories.)
2. London lobt Massenmorde - Plutokraten und Bolschewisten die Weltfeinde.
(London praises mass murders - Plutocrats and Bolsheviks the world's enemies.)


July 8, 1941: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP.
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1. Die Sowjetluftwaffe endgültig zerschlagen.
(The Soviet air force finally crushed.)
2. Schwerste Verluste bolschewistischer Flieger - Czernowitz genommen.
(Heaviest losses of Bolshevik airmen - Czernowitz taken.)
3. Ein neuer Massenmord der GPU. entdeckt - 1500 Ukrainer mit MG. niedergemetzelt.
(Another mass murder by the GPU. discovered - 1500 Ukrainians massacred with machine guns.)



   
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