Interesting title: it must not be sent home...
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August 06, 1944
SSHHH, August 6, 1944
* Post D-Day invasion Europe
An interesting title for sure, being a single sheet military paper reporting on recent battle reports. The newsiest purposely has no city of publication, but was presumably published somewhere in Europe, two months after D-Day.
Printed at the bottom of the front page is: "This edition must not be sent home" which likely explains the scarcity of this title. This is the first we have discovered in our 50+ years.
Articles include: "Spearhead Drive Through Brittany" 'Putting First Things First" "Eighth Cross The Arno" "Stop Press: Americans in Brest" with the entire back page taken up with: "From Salerno To Cassino - Story of X Corps' Battles In Italy - German Tactics In Retreat".
Background: This isn't just a newspaper; it is a forbidden artifact of the front lines, a "ghost" edition of military journalism never intended to survive the war. Printed exactly two months after D-Day, this single-sheet briefing carries the heavy weight of operational secrecy, bearing the explicit warning: "This edition must not be sent home." While the public back in the States read sanitized, delayed reports, the soldiers holding this paper were getting the raw "Stop Press" reality of Patton’s Third Army tearing through Brittany and the bloody transition of the X Corps from the ruins of Cassino to the Arno River. Because it was prohibited from the mail—and thus escaped the scrapbooks of history—this survivor represents an incredibly rare, unvarnished look at the Allied "breakout" phase, making it a "holy grail" for collectors seeking the authentic, uncensored pulse of the European Theatre of Operations.
* Post D-Day invasion Europe
An interesting title for sure, being a single sheet military paper reporting on recent battle reports. The newsiest purposely has no city of publication, but was presumably published somewhere in Europe, two months after D-Day.
Printed at the bottom of the front page is: "This edition must not be sent home" which likely explains the scarcity of this title. This is the first we have discovered in our 50+ years.
Articles include: "Spearhead Drive Through Brittany" 'Putting First Things First" "Eighth Cross The Arno" "Stop Press: Americans in Brest" with the entire back page taken up with: "From Salerno To Cassino - Story of X Corps' Battles In Italy - German Tactics In Retreat".
Background: This isn't just a newspaper; it is a forbidden artifact of the front lines, a "ghost" edition of military journalism never intended to survive the war. Printed exactly two months after D-Day, this single-sheet briefing carries the heavy weight of operational secrecy, bearing the explicit warning: "This edition must not be sent home." While the public back in the States read sanitized, delayed reports, the soldiers holding this paper were getting the raw "Stop Press" reality of Patton’s Third Army tearing through Brittany and the bloody transition of the X Corps from the ruins of Cassino to the Arno River. Because it was prohibited from the mail—and thus escaped the scrapbooks of history—this survivor represents an incredibly rare, unvarnished look at the Allied "breakout" phase, making it a "holy grail" for collectors seeking the authentic, uncensored pulse of the European Theatre of Operations.
Item from last month's catalog - #364 - released for March, 2026.
Category: World War II
