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June 19, 1940: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England. |
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Note the report in column 5: "Italian Submarine Bombed And Sunk" |
(The report states that the R.A.F. bombed and sank an Italian submarine and that in previous days the Royal Navy had engaged and sank four other Italian submarines. In official British documents it is stated that HMS Diamond had attacked an Italian submarine and that the attack was considered successful.
However, only one Italian submarine had been sunk since Italy's entry into the war and that was on June 17 by a French gunboat.) |
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June 19, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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June 19, 1940: Front page of the Nottingham Evening Post, Nottingham, England. |
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June 19, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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June 19, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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June 19, 1940: Front page of the Daily Telegraph, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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June 19, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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June 19, 1940: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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June 19, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands. |
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June 19, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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June 19, 1940: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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Note the report at bottom center: "I Aged 10 Years in 10 Minutes; Manning Says As U-Boat Menaced U.S. Refugee Liner" |
(An interview with the commanding officer of SS Washington, which had been stopped by a German U-Boat and threatened.) |
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June 19, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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June 19, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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Note the report at bottom right: "Nazi Plot To Occupy Uruguay Is Reported" |
(To the best of my knowledge no such Nazi plot exhisted, this story seems to be a complete fabrication, for what purpose, one can only speculate. A good guess might be that they were positioning themselves for some monetary assistance from the U.S.A.) |
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June 19, 1940: Front page of The Escanaba Daily Press, Escanaba, Michigan. |
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Note the report in column 1: "Guns Wanted For Detroit's Air Defenses" |
(So-called high officials called on the War Department to provide 1,500 officers and men, equipped with anti-aircraft guns, searchlights, listening devices (designed to detect approaching enemy aircraft) and a cadre of motor vehicles to make the unit completely mobile. All this to protect the city of Detroit, Michigan from a feared air attack, presumably by Germany. The governor of Michigan, Republican Luren Dickinson, sent that request to Washington. I don't know if this was approved or if any of the men or equipment were ever deployed, but one must wonder what was really going on here. Detroit is over 3,600 miles from the closest point in France where the Germans could launch an air attack. The Fw-200 Condor was the German aircraft with the longest range and that was only a little over 2,200 miles (1,900 nautical miles) which might make an air attack against an inland U.S. city a little unlikely, unless the real threat came from the Canadians. It should not be necessary to point out how absurd the thought of Detroit being bombed by German aircraft was. Yesterday in the Manchester Evening News there was a report that Hitler was planning an invasion of the western hemisphere, which is equally absurd.) |
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June 19, 1940: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California. |
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June 19, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. Tanks an der Themse brennen. |
(Burning tanks of the Thames.) |
2. Münchener Treffen - Baustein zum neuen Europa. |
(Munich meeting - building block for the new Europe.) |
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June 19, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Schnell Beschlüsse in München. |
(Quick decisions in Munich.) |
2. Frankreichs Waffenschmiede in deutscher Hand. |
(France's armory in German hands.) |
3. Rasch fortschreitender Zusammenbruch der französischen Heere. |
(Rapid collapse of the French armies.) |
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Page published June 19, 2021 |
