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June 10, 1940: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England. |
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June 10, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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June 10, 1940: Front page of the Nottingham Evening Post, Nottingham, England. |
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June 10, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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June 10, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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June 10, 1940: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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June 10, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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June 10, 1940: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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June 10, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands. |
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June 10, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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Note the report at bottom left: "Norway Capitulates, Hitler Now Rules Entire Nation" |
Also note the report in column 5: "American Boy Killed in War" |
(Reportedly the first American civilian killed in World War II was 8 year-old Alfred Paul Ritter, who was killed in an R.A.F. bombing raid on Klingenstein, Germany. He had been living with his grandparents since 1937, his grandfather was also killed.) |
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June 10, 1940: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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June 10, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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Note the report in column 4: "Cuban Says Island Ripe For Fascism" |
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June 10, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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June 10, 1940: Front page of the Butte Montana Standard, Butte, Montana. |
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Note the report at bottom right: "Liner President Roosevelt Docks With U.S. Refugees" |
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June 10, 1940: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California. |
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June 10, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. Voller deutscher Sieg in Narvik! |
(Complete German victory in Narvik!) |
2. Abzug der Alliierten, Kapitulation der Norweger. |
(Withdrawal of the Allies, capitulation of Norway.) |
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June 10, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Die Aisne beiderseits Soissons überschritten. |
(Aisne crossed on both sides of Soissons.) |
2. Seestreitkräfte versenkten britischer Flugzeugträger bei Narvik. |
(Naval forces sink British aircraft carrier off Narvik.) |
[This is the German announcement that HMS Glorious had been sunk.] |
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Page published June 10, 2021 |
