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August 17, 1941: Front page of The People, London, England. |
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August 17, 1941: Front page of the Sunday Pictorial, London, England. |
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August 17, 1941: Front page of The Sunday Post, Glasgow, Scotland. |
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August 17, 1941: Front page of The Sunday Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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Note the report in column 1: "Thargomindah Bunyip Now Has A Mate" |
(A mythical creature, much smaller than Nessie, that was never photographed, and never found, but reported in the Australian press until mid-Sept. After which, it was never heard of again.) |
Also note the report in column 1: "40 Doctors Failed To Save Doctor" |
(Forty doctors tried to save Dr. Mato Nagayo, a noted cancer specialist who had pneumonia.
Sometimes when it's your time, nothing and nobody can save you.) |
August 17, 1941: Front page of The Sunday Star, Washington, D.C. |
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August 17, 1941: Front page of The Sunday Star-News, Wilmington, North Carolina. |
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August 17, 1941: Front page of the Detroit Times, Detroit, Michigan. |
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August 17, 1941: Front page of The Kingsport Times, Kingsport, Tennessee. |
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Note the report in column 6: "Der Furrer" |
(A cat named Adolf, for obvious reasons. I would have called him Kitler.) |
August 17, 1941: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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August 17, 1941: Front page of the Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada. |
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August 17, 1941: Front page of the Oakland Tribune, Oakland, California. |
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Note the report in columns 1-2: "Thousands See Ship Launched" |
(Ocean Vanguard, the first of sixty ships to be built for Great Britain, was launched at Todd-California Shipyard in Richmond, California. The report calls this a 10,000-ton ship, but it was really 7,174 tons. It was completed on Oct. 27, 1941 and survived until Sept. 13, 1942 when U-515 torpedoed and sank the ship. Eleven men went down with it.) |
August 17, 1941: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Wer muß wem helfen? |
(Who has to help whom?) |
2. Der Kniefall vor dem Moskauer Blutsäufer. |
(Kneeling before the Moscow blood drinker.) |
3. Erfolgreicher Operationsverlauf im Osten. |
(Successful course of operations in the east.) |
Page published August 17, 2022 |