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September 16, 1941: Front page of the News and Chronicle, London, England. |
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Note the report in column 7: "Raid Deaths Fell to 169 in August" |
September 16, 1941: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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September 16, 1941: Front page of The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Mercury, Leeds, England. |
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September 16, 1941: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales. |
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September 16, 1941: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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Note the report in column 3: "Lindbergh Loses Supporters" |
(After his despicable attack on Jews, his supporters are fleeing.) |
Also note the report in column 2: "Terror Wave in Norway" |
Also note the report in column 3: "Ghost Voice Again" |
September 16, 1941: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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Note the report in column 7: "Tanker Picks Up 37 Dutch Survivors" |
(The report assumes the survivors were from the Kota Nopan, which the Allies believed had been sunk by a German raider. In fact, Kota Nopan had been captured by the German Hilfskreuzer [auxiliary cruiser] Komet on Aug. 17, 1941, all of the 51 people on board had been taken prisoner. The Stanvac Manila had rescued the survivors from the 5,719-ton Marken, which was sunk by U-111 on Sept. 10. Stanvac Manila also became a war loss, on May 23, 1943 when it was sunk by the Japanese submarine I-17.) |
September 16, 1941: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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Note the report in column 8: "U.S. Submarines In Mediterranean Says Gayda" |
(Italian Fascist editor, Virginio Gayda, making up propaganda about U.S. submarines.) |
September 16, 1941: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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September 16, 1941: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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September 16, 1941: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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September 16, 1941: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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Note the report in column 1: "Germans Seize Property Of Dutch Royal Family" |
September 16, 1941: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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September 16, 1941: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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September 16, 1941: Front page of The Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada. |
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Note the report in column 6: "Huge Dirigibles To Patrol Ocean Visioned by Ace" |
(Capt. Charles E. Rosendahl made an il-advised prediction that dirigibles [Zeppelins] twice the size of the Hindenburg, would patrol the seas with a range of 10,000 miles carrying 12 aircraft. He was inspecting a site for Navy blimps, which were deployed against the U-boat threat, but Zeppelins large enough to carry 12 aircraft, never happened.) |
September 16, 1941: Front page of the San Mateo Times, San Mateo, California. |
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September 16, 1941: Front page of the Teltower Kreisblatt, Kreis Teltow, Brandenburg, Germany. |
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1. Erweiterter Einbruch vor Leningrad. |
(Extended break through the lines near Leningrad.) |
September 16, 1941: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Im Festungssystem von Leningrad. |
(Inside the Leningrad Fortress System.) |
Page published September 16, 2022 |