World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Thursday May 16, 1940
Day 259

May 16, 1940: Front page of the Nottingham Evening Post, Nottingham, England.
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May 16, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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May 16, 1940: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England.
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May 16, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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Note the report in column 4: "Cut In Sugar And Butter Rations"
(The Germans are accused of executing 150 boys, between the ages of 10 and 16, in Bydgoscz.)


May 16, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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May 16, 1940: Front page of the Daily Telegraph, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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May 16, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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May 16, 1940: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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May 16, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands.
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May 16, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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May 16, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.
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May 16, 1940: Front page of the Syracuse Herald-Journal, Syracuse, New York.
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May 16, 1940: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California.
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May 16, 1940: Front page of The Kingsport Times, Kingsport, Tennessee.
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May 16, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany.
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1. Deutsche Truppen im Haag und in Amsterdam.
(German troops in The Hague and Amsterdam.)
2. Luftwaffen-Volltreffer vernichten Panzerwagen.
(Direct hits by the Luftwaffe destroys tanks.)


May 16, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP.
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1. Der Führer dankt den Holland=Kämpfern.
(The Führer thanks soldiers fighting in Holland.)
2. "Ihr habt eine einzigartige Leistung vollbracht"
(You have succeeded in a unique achievement.)



   
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