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May 27, 1942: Front page of the News and Chronicle, London, England. |
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Note the report in column 4: "Germans Lost a Destroyer in Brest Dash" |
(Both battleships, Scharnhorst and Gneisenau were damaged, but no ships were lost.) |
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May 27, 1942: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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May 27, 1942: Front page of The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Mercury, Leeds, England. |
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May 27, 1942: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales. |
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May 27, 1942: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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May 27, 1942: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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Note the photo at top right: "Full-Length View Of Latest Battleship" |
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May 27, 1942: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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May 27, 1942: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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May 27, 1942: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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Note the report in column 6: "Axis Sub Surrenders" |
(No German submarines had been sunk off Brazil and
I have no record of an Italian submarine named Pamplona. The persistent reports, becoming more detailed as the days go by, leads me to believe that something happened, but no Italian submarines were sunk or captured in May of 1942.) |
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May 27, 1942: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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Note the report in columns 5-6: "No. 2 Gestapo Wounded in Attempt On Life" |
(SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich, Deputy Protector of Bohemia and Moravia, A.K.A. 'Heydrich the Hangman' had indeed been attacked in Prague. Two Czechs, trained in England, had attempted to assassinate him, but the attack failed to kill him outright, but it did kill him. He languished in hospital, suffering, until June 4th when he died of blood poisoning from a piece of upholstery from his car seat that was blown into his body by the bomb. Note that the photo is not of Heydrich.) |
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May 27, 1942: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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Note the report in column 8: "First Sinking Of New England Fishing Vessel" |
(The unidentified boat was the 324-ton trawler Foam, which was sunk by U-432. The only casualty was Engineer Mack Wallace.) |
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May 27, 1942: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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Note the report in column 1: "Plane Sinks Sub Off Martinique, Avenging Blakeley Torpedoing" |
(The report was nothing more than wishful thinking. No U-Boat had been sunk.) |
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May 27, 1942: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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Note the report in column 5: "Nazis Execute 400 Hostages, Mostly Poles, in Reprisal" |
(This was a small reprisal killing when compared to what the Germans would do to the Czech people for the assassination attempt on Heydrich.) |
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May 27, 1942: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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May 27, 1942: Front page of the Tucson Daily Citizen, Tucson, Arizona. |
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May 27, 1942: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California. |
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May 27, 1942: Front page of the Teltower Kreisblatt, Kreis Teltow, Brandenburg, Germany. |
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1. Allmählicher Abbau der Feindlügen um Charkow. |
(Gradual dismantling of enemy lies around Kharkov.) |
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May 27, 1942: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Die Schlacht um Charkow in vollem Gange - Der Kessel wird immer enger - Vernichtende Schläge der Luftwaffe. |
(The battle for Kharkov in full swing - The pocket is getting narrower - Devastating blows from the Luftwaffe.) |
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Page published May 27, 2023 |