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June 23, 1940: Front page of The People, London, England. |
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Note the report in column 3-4: "Italian Submarine Captured - Surrenders To Trawler" |
(This report is true, the unnamed submarine was Galilei, 16 of the crew were killed in this action.) |
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June 23, 1940: Front page of the Sunday Pictorial, London, England. |
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June 23, 1940: Front page of the Sunday Telegraph, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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June 23, 1940: Front page of The Sunday Mail, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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June 23, 1940: Front page of The Sunday Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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June 23, 1940: Front page of The Sunday Star, Washington, D.C. |
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Note the report in column 4: "Three British Vessels Leave, Laden With Arms" |
(The Associated Press, once again, providing the German U-boat staff with good intelligence on British ship cargoes and movements.) |
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June 23, 1940: Front page of The Charleston Gazette, Charleston, West Virginia. |
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Note the report in column 6: "British Pound Nazi Warship" |
(The report states that Scharnhorst had been torpedoed, however it was Gneisenau that had been hit in this attack.) |
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June 23, 1940: Front page of The Kingsport Times, Kingsport, Tennessee. |
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Note the report in column 4: "300-pound Bomb Found At Bridge" |
(The report states that a tip was phoned in about a bomb under a bridge. A police officer responded and it states that he put in his squad car and took it to headquarters. It was identified as a leaden weight used to measure the river's depth. However, the report does not indicate if the police officer knew this before he put it in his car or not. I presume he did.) |
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June 23, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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June 23, 1940: Front page of the Butte Montana Standard, Butte, Montana. |
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June 23, 1940: Front page of The Cedar Rapids Gazette, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. |
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June 23, 1940: Front page of The Escanaba Daily Press, Escanaba, Michigan. |
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June 23, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Elsaß-Lothringen in unserer Hand. |
(Alsace-Lorraine in our hands.) |
2. Frankreich hat unterzeichnet. |
(France has signed.) |
3. Waffenruhe erst nach Abschluß des italienisch-französischen Waffenstillstandes. |
(Armistice only after the conclusion of the Franco-Italian armistice.) |
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Page published June 23, 2021 |
