World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Thursday August 8, 1940
Day 343

August 8, 1940: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England.
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August 8, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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August 8, 1940: Front page of the Birmingham Gazette, Birmingham, England.
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August 8, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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August 8, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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Note the report in column 6: "Killed In Accident"
(The report has his name spelled incorrectly, he was Flying Officer Anthony Gray-Worcester. He died July 18, not Aug 6. as stated in the report.)


August 8, 1940: Front page of the Daily Telegraph, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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Note the report in column 4: "Red Charges Against Hollywood Notables"
(Exposing communists in Hollywood.)


August 8, 1940: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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Note the report in columns 2-3: "U-Boat Sinks Liner in Convoy"


August 8, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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August 8, 1940: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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August 8, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands.
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August 8, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.
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August 8, 1940: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C.
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Note the report in columns 2-3: "Gestapo Raided Polish Homes For Slaves to Toil on Farms"
(This is Part 5 of Life in Poland Under the Nazi Conquerors, published in The Evening Star. Written by Michael Sobanski, from an account by Ira Wolfert, is an uncensored account of the conditions in Poland under Nazi rule.


August 8, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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Note the report in columns 1-2: "Air Stewardess Unconscious As Big Plane Lands"
(In this report, which is not credited, the woman, Rosemary Griffith, is described as a brown-haired woman who had a bad fall while in flight. But they apparently were not aware of the full details of the story. See column 6 in the Kingsport Times below.)


August 8, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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August 8, 1940: Front page of The Kingsport Times, Kingsport, Tennessee.
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Note the report in column 6: "Stewardess Is Injured Mysteriously"
(This report, by the Associated Press, describes Rosemary Griffith as a blonde. It also reveals that she was attacked from behind by someone trying to obtain a key from her, which she swallowed rather than give it up.)
[See "Postal Probe Ordered Into Plane Attack" in The Evening Gazette of Aug. 9, 1940.]


August 8, 1940: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California.
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August 8, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany.
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1. Baldur v. Schirach Gauleiter von Wein.
(Baldur von Schirach Gauleiter of Vienna.)
2. Krupp: erster Pionier der Arbeit.
(Krupp: First pioneer of the work.)
3. Minen-Abwurf vor englischen häfen.
(Dropping mines off English harbors.)


August 8, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP.
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1. 1. Baldur von Schirach Gauleiter von Wein.
(Baldur von Schirach Gauleiter of Vienna.)
2. Neuer Austrag Bürckels in Lothringen.
(New event at Bürckels in Lorraine.)



   
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