World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Tuesday Sept. 24, 1940
Day 390

Sept. 24, 1940: Front page of the Nottingham Evening Post, Nottingham, England.
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Sept. 24, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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Sept. 24, 1940: Front page of the Birmingham Gazette, Birmingham, England.
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Sept. 24, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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Sept. 24, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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Sept. 24, 1940: Front page of the Daily Telegraph, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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Sept. 24, 1940: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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Sept. 24, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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Note the report at top: "Storms And R.A.F. Attacks Cost Nazis 60,000 Men Of INvasion Fleet"


Sept. 24, 1940: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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Sept. 24, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands.
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Sept. 24, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.
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Sept. 24, 1940: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C.
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Sept. 24, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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(Click below for part fourteen of "Our Country" a twenty-four part series, written by twenty-four different authors, describing what America means to them. Today's piece was written by Stuart Chase.)


Sept. 24, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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Sept. 24, 1940: Front page of The Kingsport Times, Kingsport, Tennessee.
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Sept. 24, 1940: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California.
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Sept. 24, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany.
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1. Cambridge für Heidelberg bombardiert.
(Cambridge bombed for Heidelberg.)
2. Italien stellt fest: Die Funktionen Englands sind erloschen.
(Italians claim: The functions of England have ceased.)
3. König Georg vor dem Mikrophon.
(King George at the microphone.)


Sept. 24, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP.
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1. Die Verbrecherparole des englischen Luftmarschalls - Wir haben es satt, Bomben auf militärische Ziele zu werfen.
(The criminal slogan of England's air marshals - We're sick of dropping bombs on military targets.)
2. Die britische Kriegsmoral endgültig auf dem Tiefpunkt angelangt.
(British war morale has finally bottomed out.)



   
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