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May 21, 1940: Front page of the Nottingham Evening Post, Nottingham, England. |
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Note the report in column 4: "Emergency Courts Set Up By Gestapo" |
Also note the report in column 3: "80-Ton British Tanks" |
(A few prototypes of such a tank, known as the Tortoise, were constructed in 1943-44, but it was never put into production.) |
May 21, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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May 21, 1940: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England. |
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May 21, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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May 21, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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May 21, 1940: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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May 21, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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May 21, 1940: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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Note the report in column 1: "Death Penalty For Treachery" |
May 21, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands. |
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May 21, 1940: Front page of The Twin Falls News, Twin Falls, Idaho. |
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Note the report in column 2: "Boy To Escape Death Penalty" |
(16 year-old Clifford Albert Zipse, who was convicted of murdering 14 year-old Wesley Curtis, and had been sentenced to hang for the crime, will have his sentence commuted to life in prison.] |
May 21, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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Note the report at bottom right: "Boiler Kid Will Become Father He Reveals" |
(The "Boiler Kid" Frederick B. Snite, Jr., also known as "The Man in the Iron Lung" announces he is to be a father.) |
May 21, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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May 21, 1940: Front page of The Kingsport Times, Kingsport, Tennessee. |
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May 21, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur Times, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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May 21, 1940: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California. |
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May 21, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. Die Kanalküste ist erreicht! |
(The Channel coast has been reached!) |
2. Briten fliehen, von Luftwaffe verfolgt, nach England. |
(British flee to England with the Luftwaffe in pursuit.) |
May 21, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Deutsche Truppen haben Laon erstürmt. |
(German troops have stormed Laon.) |
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