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August 10, 1940: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England. |
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August 10, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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Note the report at bottom left: "Nurse Was Heroine Of Hull Fever Ship" |
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August 10, 1940: Front page of the Birmingham Gazette, Birmingham, England. |
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Note the report in column 2: "Brazil Seizes Lithuanian Vessel" |
(The issue with the ship, which was actually named Ciltvaira, was resolved and the ship returned to service. However, on Jan. 19, 1942, Kapitänleutnant Reinhard Hardegen and his U-123 sent it to the bottom off the North Carolina coast.) |
Also note the photo in column 4: "Five Nazis Crash Together - All Flames" |
(This photo was nothing more than a hoax, just like the photoshopped photos of today. Nevertheless, it was run in newspapers around the world for the next few days. People in England soon realized that the absurd photo was a fake and enough of them contacted the British Air Ministry to cause them to make a public denial. They said that the photo was not an official photo and made the following statement; "No such incident was reported by out pilots who took part in the engagement." This was covered by the Associated Press, which means that every editor that used the AP got the report, but many continued to run the photo without the disclaimer.) |
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August 10, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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Note the report in column 4: "M.P. Pays For Thursday's Air Losses" |
(Garfield Weston, M.P. for Macclsfield, gave £100,000 to the Minister of Aircraft Production, to purchase new Spitfires to replace some of those lost in combat. This was quite a patriotic gesture.) |
Also note the report in columns 5-6: "Fantastic German Claims On Great Convoy Attack" |
(The attack was against convoy CW-9, in total five ships were sunk, 2 by aircraft; (Coquetdale & Empire Crusader,) 2 by S-boats; (Fife Coast & Holme Force,) and one (Ouse) sank after colliding with another ship while trying to avoid being torpedoed by the two S-boats, S-21 & S-27.) |
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August 10, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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Note the photo at top: "H.M.A.S. Sydney After Her Victory" |
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August 10, 1940: Front page of the Daily Telegraph, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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August 10, 1940: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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August 10, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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August 10, 1940: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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August 10, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands. |
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August 10, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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August 10, 1940: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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August 10, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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Note the photo at top right: "Five Nazi Planes Meet Flaming End At Sea" |
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August 10, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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August 10, 1940: Front page of the Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada. |
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August 10, 1940: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California. |
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August 10, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. Keine Atempause für die belagerte Insel. |
(No respite for the besieged island.) |
2. Neue erfolgreiche Bombenangriffe auf Häfen, Werften, Rüstungswerke und Flugplätz. |
(Successful new bombing raids on harbors, shipyards, armament factories and airfields.) |
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August 10, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Alarm seit Donnerstag, 2 Uhr. |
(Warnings since 2 a.m. on Thursday.) |
2. Lähmende Angriff und zermürbende Erwartung in England. |
(Crippling attack and grueling expectation in England.) |
3. 32 Schiffe bombardiert - 49 Flugzeuge abgeschossen. |
(32 Ships bombed - 49 aircraft shot down.) |
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Page published August 10, 2021 |