Historic Newspapers: World War II

THE NEW YORK TIMES, April 29, 1946

• Tokyo War Crimes military Trial - Tribunal begins
• Prime Minister of Japan, Hideki Tojo & others indicted
• Crimes of aggression against humanity - peace

The front page

THE NEW YORK TIMES, May 22, 1943

• Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ends in failure
• German occupied Poland - Nazi atrocities
• Jewish resistance - Jews

The top of page 3 has one column headings: "JEWS' LAST STAND

BEACON, Philadelphia Navy Yard, February 13, 1942

• USS Butler & USS Gherardi launching w/ photo
• World War II - WWII U.S. Navy destroyers

A military paper produced at the Navy Yard, which was a major

CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE, March 30, 1945

• Battle of Frankfurt, Germany (capture)
• General George S. Patton's Third Army
• Nazis - Germans falling apart

The front page has a nice banner headline: "1ST ARMY

NEW YORK POST, Oct. 8, 1941

• Operation Barbarossa - German invasion of Russia
• Battles for Moscow - Soviet Union

The front page has a banner headline: "130 MILES FROM MOSCOW" with with lead-in: "Reds

LEOMINSTER DAILY ENTERPRISE, Mass. Aug. 26, 1940

• Battle of Britain aerial fight
• Royal Air Force - Fleet Air Arm
• Nazi Germany - German Luftwaffe

The front page has a banner headline: "TERRIFIC AIR

THE NEW YORK TIMES, May 22, 1944

• Jewish Holocaust becoming known for the 1st time
• Nazi-occupied Europe exterminations

Page 5 has one column headings: "NAZIS BAR RESCUE OF 1,350 ORPHANS" "Refuse

THE NEW YORK TIMES, November 8, 1943

• Jewish Holocaust becoming reality to the public
• Nazi-occupied Austria exterminations

The top of page 6 has one column headings that include: "GERMANS WIPE OUT

THE NEW YORK TIMES, November 14, 1941

• Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels
• Speech with "10 Commandments" against Jews
• Important step in the Jewish Holocaust disaster
• Includes "Star of David" yellow

THE NEW YORK TIMES, December 20, 1943

• Henschel Hs 293 guided missile 1st used
• Rocket warfare during World War II
• New German radio controlled  glider bomb

Near the bottom of the front page is a two

THE NEW YORK TIMES, October 29, 1944

• Battle of Leyte Gulf VICTORY
• Philippines Sea - William Halsey
• World War II - WWII Pacific theater

The front page has a banner headline: "HIGHER JAPANESE FLEET'S

THE CRIMSON-WHITE, University of Alabama, March 24, 1944  As noted in the masthead, this is the: "Official Newspaper of the University of Alabama". Not surprisingly there is some World War II

CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE, April 23, 1943

• re. The famous Doolittle raid of Japan
• U.S. Army Air Force B-25B Mitchell bombers
• Realization of Japanese executions

The front page has a banner headline: "HIT

THE SUN, Baltimore, September 3, 1939

• Blitzkrieg - Germany attacks - Germans invasion of Poland
• England enters the beginning of World War II - WWII

The front page features a nice banner headline for

THE BOSTON DAILY GLOBE, Aug. 9, 1945

• Russia declares war on Japan
• Hiroshima, Japan atomic bombing

Very late in the war, in fact less than a week before Japan surrendered, Russia declared war on

THE LOCK HAVEN EXPRESS, Penn., Aug. 14, 1945

• World War II ends
• Japanese surrenders
• Nice for display

A very dramatic & displayable "Extra" issue announcing the end of World War II, with a large: "

THE STARS AND STRIPES, Mediterranean Edition, January 1, 1945

• Battle of the Bulge
• World War II - WWII

The front page has a two column heading: "U.S. Troops Seize Vital Town At Tip Of German Salient" (

FITCHBURG SENTINEL, Mass, Nov. 8, 1944

• Franklin D. Roosevelt - FDR
• 4th presidential election victory

The banner headline proclaims: "ROOSEVELT SWEEPS NATION" with subheads, electoral map and photo.

PM's WEEKLY, December 7, 1941

• Dated on the day of the attack on Pearl Harbor

The front page has a heading that reads: "Vichy Backs Japan Against U.S.A." with coverage on page 3. (see images) Nice to

THE NEW YORK TIMES, May 8, 1942

• Battle of the Coral Sea is on
• Imperial Japanese verses U.S. Navy
• USS Lexington & Yorktown fame
• Pacific Ocean theater - aircraft carriers

The front page has a nice banner

NEW YORK WORLD-TELEGRAM, Aug. 28, 1941

• United States & Japan tensions
• Pacific War becoming imminent ?

The front page has a banner headline: "ROOSEVELT JOINS PARLEY AS JAPAN CRISIS NEARS" with

MINNEAPOLIS SUNDAY TRIBUNE, Feb. 7, 1943

• General Dwight D. Eisenhower named supreme commander
• Mediterranean Theater of Operations - North Africa campaign

The front page has a five column heading:

NEW YORK WORLD-TELEGRAM, September 7, 1939

• Blitzkrieg - Warsaw about to fall
• World War II WWII beginning
• Nazis invasion on Poland & more

The front page features a banner headline: "FRENCH GAIN ON WEST

MINNEAPOLIS MORNING TRIBUNE, June 11, 1945

• Battle of Okinawa - assault on the Yaeju-Dake Escarpment
• U.S. Tenth Army's 96th Infantry Division vs. Japanese death-stand

The front page has a nice banner

THE NEW YORK TIMES, July 23, 1942

• German U-85 - U-boat crewmen
• Sunk off North Carolina coast (29 dead)
• First German submarine sunk by U.S. Navy - USS Roper
• Buried w/ military honors at Hampton National

THE NEW YORK TIMES, April 29, 1943

• re. The famous Doolittle raid of Japan
• U.S. Army Air Force B-25B Mitchell bombers
• Realization of Japanese executions

The front page has a two column heading: "Chiang

MINNEAPOLIS MORNING TRIBUNE, Minnesota, August 10, 1942

• Battle of Guadalcanal beginning
• Solomon Islands - U.S. Marines
• World War II - WWII

The front page has a banner headline: "FLEET FIGHTS ON; FOE

NEW YORK POST, February 22, 1942

• Internment of Japanese Americans
• FDR's Executive Order 9066
• Alien control order
• World War II - WWII

The front page has a one column heading: "FBI Pounces On Axis Aliens

NEW YORK WORLD-TELEGRAM, April 7, 1942

• Battle of Bataan ending
• Allies surrendering to Japanese
• Philippines Campaign
• World War II - WWII

The front page has a nice banner headline in bold lettering:

NEW YORK WORLD-TELEGRAM, June 24, 1940

• France-Italy armistice
• Dictator Benito Mussolini
• Battle of France conclusion

The front page has a nice banner headline: "FRENCH ACCEPT DUCE'S TERMS, FIGHTING TO

THE NEW YORK TIMES, May 5, 1944

• Alexander Fleming
• Penicillin - Penicillium
• Made available for public use
• World War II - WWII

The front page has a two column heading: "Public to Get Penicillin Through

MINNEAPOLIS MORNING TRIBUNE, Feb. 24, 1942

• Attack on California coast
• Ellwood oil field shelling
• Japanese submarine I-17

The front page banner headline proclaims: "SUB SHELLS WEST COAST" with

THE NEW YORK TIMES, Nov. 27, 1944

• Third United States Army
• General George S. Patton
• World War II - WWII
• Battle of the Bulge prelude

The front page has a banner headline: "3D ARMY GAINS 5 MILES, SPLITS

THE NEW YORK TIMES, Jan. 29, 1942

• Internment of Axis-Americans beginning
• World War II - WWII - Japanese citizens

Page 12 has a one column heading: "WEST COAST MOVES TO OUST JAPANESE" with subhead.

THE NEW YORK TIMES, April 28, 1943

• "Rare of Europe" - Nazis looting - plundering
• Art, machinery, war materials & much more

The top of the back  page has a one column heading: "NAZI LOOTING HELD

SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, EXTRA, July 12, 1943

• Invasion of Sicily Italy
• Operation Husky

The nice headline on the front page in bold lettering announces: "HEAVY BATTLE ON NEAR SICILY INVASION PORT"

MINNEAPOLIS MORNING TRIBUNE, June 16, 1942

• Chicago Tribune journalist Stanley Johnston
• USS Lexington & the Battle of the Coral Sea
• Imperial Japanese Navy secret coding - codes

Read below for a short

THE NEW YORK TIMES, April 12, 1943

• Krakow and Lodz ghettos erased
• Severe persecution of Polish Jews
• Jewish Holocaust heats up in Poland
• World War II - WWII Europe

Near the bottom of page 5 is a one

THE STARS &  STRIPES, New York & London edition, Nov. 29, 1943

• Great Lakes Naval Training Station Bluejackets
• Beats Notre Dame Fighting Irish at Purdue's stadium
• Military pro vs. college football

THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, Boston, May 7, 1945

• Germany Surrenders
• V-E day - Nazis quit

The front page has a banner headline announcing: "Germans Surrender" with subhead and related illustration.

THE NEW YORK TIMES, Jan. 8, 1942

• Internment of Axis-Americans beginning
• World War II - WWII - AG Francis Biddle

The top of page 19 has a one column heading: "NEW ALIEN LISTING PLANNED BU BIDDLE" with

SECTION 4 ONLY of the New York Times, Jan. 4, 1942

• Internment of Japanese Americans beginning
• World War II - WWII - Robert F. Whitney

The back page of this section has a editorial by Robert F.

THE TOPEKA DAILY CAPITAL, Kansas, August 31, 1945

• United States Marines land on Japan
• General Douglas MacArthur takes control
• World War II American Occupation begins

The top of the front page has a

GRIT, Williamsport, Pennsylvania, September 10, 1939

• Blitzkrieg - Warsaw
• World War II WWII beginning
• Nazis invade Poland
• FRONT LEAF ONLY ***

The front page has a nice banner headline: "Warsaw, Bombed

THE NEW YORK TIMES, July 4, 1943

• Original Declaration of Independence facsimile
• July 4, 1776 with full text and founding fathers (signatures)
• Middle of the World War II era - 167th anniversary

Page 14

THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, Boston, May 1, 1945

• Raising a Flag over the Reichstag - WWII
• Soviet's Union's victory over Nazi Germany
• Battle of Berlin - World War II (Europe) ending

The front page

MINNEAPOLIS MORNING TRIBUNE, November 17, 1942

• Naval Battle of Guadalcanal
• Savo Island - Solomons victory

The front page has a nice banner headline: "JAPAN GIVEN WORST DEFEAT" with subheads and

THE NEW YORK TIMES, May 10, 1942

• Battle of the Coral Sea - U.S. victory ?
• Imperial Japanese verses United States Navy
• USS Lexington aircraft carrier sinking fame
• First ever naval battle with aircraft

THE NEW YORK TIMES, June 18, 1942

• USS Lexington & the Battle of the Coral Sea
• Chicago Tribune journalist Stanley Johnston

The first three column of the front page are taken up with four related

THE NEW YORK TIMES, March 7, 1945

• Capture of Cologne, Germany
• 1st major German city to surrender
• Finals weeks of the Third Reich

The front page has a nice banner headline: "SHATTERED COLOGNE FALLS TO