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November 22, 1940: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England. |
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Note the report in column 4: "Britain's Mysterious War Drug" |
(The new mystery drug was penicillin.) |
November 22, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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November 22, 1940: Front page of the the Birmingham Gazette, Birmingham, England. |
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November 22, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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November 22, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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Note the headline at top left: "Minesweeper Sunk: 24 Of Crew Perish" |
(HMAS Goorangai, a converted trawler, became the first Australian warship lost in the Second World War. The ship that sank it, a passenger ship named Duntroon, sank a second ship in another collision. On Nov. 29, 1943, while serving as a troopship, she collided with and sank USS Perkins DD-377 off New Guinea.) |
Also note the report in column 4: "Ship Aground In Gale Off Barwon Heads" |
(The passenger ship Orungal went aground in a storm. The wreck was burned out on Dec. 13, 1940.) |
November 22, 1940: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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November 22, 1940: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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November 22, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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November 22, 1940: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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November 22, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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November 22, 1940: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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November 22, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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November 22, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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November 22, 1940: Front page of The Helena Independent, Helena, Montana. |
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November 22, 1940: Front page of The Southern Jewish Weekly, Jacksonville, Florida. |
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Note the report in column 4: "Jap Paper Calls For Anti-Jewish Laws" |
November 22, 1940: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California. |
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November 22, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. Fortsetzung der diplomatischen Offensive. |
(Continuation of the diplomatic offensive.) |
2. Rumäniens Stastsführer in Berlin - Antonescu und Sturdza heute eingetroffen. |
(Rumanian head of state in Berlin - Antonescu and Sturdza arrive today.) |
November 22, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Die diplomatische Offensive geht weiter. |
(The diplomatic offensive is going well.) |
2. Rumäniens Staatschef General Antonescu auf dem Wege nach Berlin. |
(Romania's head of state General Antonescu on the way to Berlin.)
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Page published November 22, 2021 |