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May 24, 1942: Front page of The People, London, England. |
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May 24, 1942: Front page of The Sunday Post, Glasgow, Scotland. |
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May 24, 1942: Front page of The Sunday Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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Note the report in columns 3-5: "U-Boat Crews Go To U.S. Movies; Paratroop Fears" |
(Maybe the most absurd report about U-boat operations of the war.) |
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May 24, 1942: Front page of The Sunday Mail, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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May 24, 1942: Front page of The Sunday Star, Washington, D.C. |
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Note the report in column 7: "Incendiary Torpedoes Fire Two U.S. Ships In Gulf; 57 Die" |
(The report claims that the Germans are using some kind of new torpedo, which was not true. Torpedoes explode, tankers full of oil or fuel burn. There never was an "incindiary torpedo." The unidentified ship in which twenty-one were lost was the 5,189-ton tanker Gulfoil, the second ship in which thirty-six people were lost was the 4,732-ton freighter (fruit ship) Heredia. Both ships were sunk by U-506.) |
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May 24, 1942: Front page of The Sunday Star-News, Wilmington, North Carolina. |
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May 24, 1942: Front page of the Detroit Times, Detroit, Michigan. |
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May 24, 1942: Front page of The Kingsport Times, Kingsport, Tennessee. |
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May 24, 1942: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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Note the photos at top: "From Speed Demon To National Hero, Via Tokyo" |
(The photo at left shows Jimmy Doolittle next to the Gee Bee, an aircraft which he flew and won the Thompson Trophy race in 1932. At the time Doolittle praised the aircraft as one of the best to its builders and to the public, but in his autobiography, he wrote the following; "That airplane was the most dangerous airplane I have even flown." It even killed one of its builders, Zantford Granville. After winning the Thompson Trophy, Doolittle retired from air racing, a decision he had made a year earlier. His decision was reinforced when after the race he; "...learned that a bunch of newspaper photographers had crowded around Joe [Josephine] and the boys waiting to take pictures of the expressions on their faces if I crashed.") |
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May 24, 1942: Front page of The Montana Standard, Butte, Montana. |
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May 24, 1942: Front page of The Ogden Standard Examiner, Ogden City, Utah. |
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May 24, 1942: Front page of the Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada. |
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May 24, 1942: Front page of the Oakland Tribune, Oakland, California. |
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May 24, 1942: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Mit Rumänen und UNgarn Schulter an Schulter - Konzentrischer Angriff an der ganzen Charkowfront - Eine starke Feindgruppe abgeschnitten. |
(Romanians and Hungarians shoulder to shoulder - Concentric attack on the entire Kharkov front - A strong enemy group cut off.) |
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Page published May 24, 2023 |