Historic Newspapers: World War II Battles
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Item #546143PM DAILY, New York, N.Y., dated March 10, 1942.
Headlines on the frontpage read "H.R. Knickerbocker Cables After Flight From Batavia: We Could Have Saved Java". The paper features other war news and stories of the day.
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Item #546139PM DAILY, New York, N.Y., dated March 3, 1942.
Headlines on the frontpage read "PM Investigation of Normandie Fire Show U.S. Navy Goes in Action With: Inflammable Life Preservers" The paper features other war news and stories of the day.
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Item #546138PM DAILY, New York, N.Y., dated June 10, 1942.
Headlines on the frontpage read "Congress Lays An Egg - But Soldiers' Families Can't Eat It". The paper features other war news and stories of the day.
Also featured is coverage of the parade held in New York City for 15 war heroes, one of which was Johnny Nettleton.
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Item #546134PM DAILY, New York, N.Y., dated June 16, 1942.
Headlines on the frontpage read "Women and Children Fight To Halt Axis at Sevastopol". The paper features other war news and stories of the day.
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Item #546130PM DAILY, New York, N.Y., dated May 30, 1942.
Headlines on the frontpage read "Consider the Bridges Case - Once a Biddle, Always a Biddle". The paper features other war news and stories of the day.
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Item #546127PM DAILY, New York, N.Y., dated May 16, 1942.
Headlines on the frontpage read "FDR Haters Hamstring U.S. at War". An included article is on what filling stations all over New York City looked like as gas rationing went into effect -- too many tankers lost The paper features other... Read full description -
Item #546126PM DAILY, New York, N.Y., dated August 1, 1942.
Headlines on the frontpage read "Russians Slow Nazi Drive on Stalingrad". An included article is of the Canada's Battle Drill School on West Coast. The paper features other war news and stories of the day.
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Item #546124PM DAILY, New York, N.Y., dated July 31, 1942.
Headlines on the frontpage read "Nation's War Steel Squandered". The paper features other war news and stories of the day.
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Item #546123PM DAILY, New York, N.Y., dated July 30, 1942.
Headlines on the frontpage read "The Case Against Dies". Also included is an article on the srvivors of a ship that was bombed and sunk by Japanese during two-day raid on Port Moresby, New Guinea. The paper features other war news and... Read full description -
Item #546122PM DAILY, New York, N.Y., dated July 29, 1942.
Headlines on the frontpage read "Russians Abandon Rostov". The paper features other war news and stories of the day.
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Item #546121PM DAILY, New York, N.Y., dated July 28, 1942.
Headlines on the frontpage read "First U.S. Fighter Pilots See Action Over Europe". The paper features other war news and stories of the day.
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Item #546031PM DAILY, New York, N.Y., dated July 22, 1942.
Headlines on the frontpage read "Reuther charges Army and Navy Brass Hats Waste Steel". The paper features other war news and stories of the day.
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Item #546016PM DAILY, New York, N.Y., dated July 14, 1942.
Headlines on the frontpage read "Strike Threat Forestalls Detroit Rent Raise". The paper features other war news and stories of the day.
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Item #546015PM DAILY, New York, N.Y., dated July 11, 1942.
Headlines on the frontpage read "Smuggled Gestapo Spy Seized Here - Posed as Jewish Refugee". The paper features other war news and stories of the day.
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Item #546013PM DAILY, New York, N.Y., dated July 8, 1942.
Headlines on the frontpage read "Ralph Ingersoll vs. Draft Board No. 44". The paper features other war news and stories of the day.
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Item #546012PM DAILY, New York, N.Y., dated July 3, 1942.
Headlines on the frontpage read "How You Can Help to Win 10 Million Votes For Democracy". The paper features other war news and stories of the day.
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Item #546011PM DAILY, New York, N.Y., dated June 27, 1942.
Headlines on the frontpage read "Good News, Big News Is Coming - Take It From FDR, Churchill". The paper features other war news and stories of the day.
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Item #546010PM DAILY, New York, N.Y., dated June 23, 1942.
Headlines on the frontpage read "We Sink Transport, Hit Cruiser, BUT Japs Win Second Aleutian Island". The paper features other war news and stories of the day.
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Item #546008PM DAILY, New York, N.Y., dated September 8, 1942.
Headlines on the frontpage read "Japs Again Land in Solomons" "Nazis Rip Into Center of Russian Line Before Stalingrad" "FDR Will Lick Inflation With or Without Congress". The paper features other war news and stories of the day.
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Item #546007PM DAILY, New York, N.Y., dated September 3, 1942.
Headlines on the frontpage read "Action on 4 Fronts: Egypt... Russia... Pacific... China..." "CIO Blasts 'Economic Czar' Proposal" "Sperry Agrees To Discontinue Gyro Cartel". The paper features other war news and... Read full description -
Item #546005PM DAILY, New York, N.Y., dated August 29, 1942.
Headlines on the frontpage read "Jap Fleet Withdraws from Solomons Battle" "Exposing Phony Red Charges Against Labor by WPB Whispersers" "Russians Gain on Moscow Front and Check Enemy Smash in Stalingrad Area"... Read full description -
Item #546002PM DAILY, New York, N.Y., dated August 8, 1942.
Headlines on the frontpage read "'Daily News' Defeatism Hurts U.S. War Effort". The paper features other war news and stories of the day.
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Item #545997PM DAILY, New York, N.Y., dated November 3, 1942.
Headlines on the frontpage read "Bunk... Because 30 Million Americans Will Vote Today" "Allies Capture Kokoda, Key Jap Base on New Guinea" "Soviets Lose Key Town In Caucasus". The paper features other war news and... Read full description -
Item #545996PM DAILY, New York, N.Y., dated November 2, 1942.
Headlines on the frontpage read "7 Jap Warships Hit; We Lost 2 In Stewart Island Battle" "Oil Shortage Perils Allied War Effort" "Hitler's Enemies Pushing Argentian Toward Revolt" . The paper features other war... Read full description -
Item #545992PM DAILY, New York, N.Y., dated October 26, 1942.
Headlines on the frontpage read "You'll Get 1 Pound of Coffee Every 5 Weeks After Nov. 28" "'Biggest Battle of Egypt' On; Guadalcanal Stops 5 Attacks" "'Daily News' Distorts Meat Figures to Put Blame For Shortage on... Read full description -
Item #545989PM DAILY, New York, N.Y., dated September 23, 1942.
Headlines on the frontpage read "Democracy Wins! - Poll Tax Bill Forced to Vote" "All Stalingrad Afire" "War Boosts Child Crime In Rest of U.S., Too" "Allies Ready for Any Jap Attack on Solomons -... Read full description -
Item #545946PM SUNDAY, New York, N.Y., dated May 10, 1942.
Headlines on the frontpage read "What's Coming? - An Answer by Vice President Wallace" "Our Sea Attack Will Continue - Gen. Mac Arthur" "Jean Muir Demands Fair Deal For Negro Themes in Movies". The paper features other... Read full description -
Item #545922PM SUNDAY, New York, N.Y., dated August 9, 1942.
Headlines on the frontpage read "U.S. Attacks Japs in Force in Solomons" " U.S. Acts on Charge Daily News Axis Betrayed War Secrets" "Red Army Ready to Blow Up Maikop Oil Wells" "6 Nzai Spies Executed". The paper features other war news and stories of the day.
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Item #545907PM SUNDAY, New York, N.Y., dated May 24, 1942.
Headlines on the frontpage read "Hearst Still Does Goosestep" "PM Finds N.Y. Waterfront Still Wide Open to Saboteurs" "Lehman Vetoes Feinberg Bill as Public Demanded". The paper features other war news and stories of... Read full description -
Item #545898PM SUNDAY, New York, N.Y., dated August 2, 1942.
Headlines on the frontpage read "Brooklyn Split Assures Mead of Nominiation" "Germans Break Through in Drive Toward the Causasus" "FBI Arrests 87 Axis Nationals" "How Japs may Open 2d Front Against USSR".... Read full description -
Item #545848PM SUNDAY, New York, N.Y., dated October 25, 1942.
Headlines on the frontpage read "'Tell the Truth Or Shut Up' -- Senator Advises Army and Navy" "Senate Vote Hamstrings 'Teen Age Draft" "Allies Out to Wipe Up Rommel" "Lisent to the Friends and neighbors of... Read full description -
Item #545828PM SUNDAY, New York, N.Y., dated September 27, 1942.
Headlines on the frontpage read "The People Protest Congress' Price Boosting, but Not Loudly Enough, Yet" "Hitler Losing Initiative in Stalingrad Battle - Willkie Asks 2d Front When We're Ready" "Sub Sinkers - What... Read full description -
Item #545798PM SUNDAY, New York, N.Y., dated March 29, 1942.
Headlines on the frontpage read "Why Did Sat. Eve. Post Pick on Jews?" "Justice Dept. Asked to Probe Check Paid To Eugene Cox." "British Attack Nazi U-Boat Base in France"". The paper features other war news and... Read full description -
Item #545785PM SUNDAY, New York, N.Y., dated March 15, 1942.
Headlines on the frontpage read "Battle of Java Cost Allies 12 Warships" "Workers Report Idle Machines in Three Big War Plants" "Yanks Help Aussies" "Biggest Nazi Drive Near". The paper features other war... Read full description -
Item #545684PM SUNDAY, New York, N.Y., dated February 22, 1942.
Headlines on the frontpage read "3-Day Sea Battle U.S.-Dutch Sink or Damage 19 Jap Ships... French Take Dunkerque Home" "Shortage Scare Is Anti-Labor Club" "Argentina Holds our Back Door Open to Axis". The paper... Read full description -
Item #545682PM SUNDAY, New York, N.Y., dated October 18, 1942.
Headlines on the frontpage read "U.S. Troops Land 800 Mi. So. of Dakar" "No Big Scale Battle On Guadalcanal Yet -- But Attack Is 'Serious'" "10 men Can Load The Gun To Kill The Poll Tax!" "Nazis Gain At... Read full description -
Item #545679PM SUNDAY, New York, N.Y., dated January 25, 1942.
Headlines on the frontpage read "Naval Battle! U.S. Blasts 3 Jap Ships" "Soviets Smash Toward Latvia" "Carole Lombard's Last Movie - Exclusive Preview" (this is published just a week after her death). The paper features other war news and stories of the day.
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Item #545675PM SUNDAY, New York, N.Y., dated January 4, 1942.
Headlines on the frontpage read "FDR, Churchill Name United Command: Allies Give Wavell High Command In Pacific - Chiang Supreme in China, Thailand, Indo-China; Hart Heads Fleets; Brett 2d to Wavell". The paper features other war news... Read full description -
Item #545635PM SUNDAY, New York, N.Y., dated December 20, 1942.
Headlines on the frontpage read "A-B-C Coupons Good for 3 Gallons Monday" "Why We Must Feed and Clothe Post-War Europe" "Russians Gain 30 Miles in Don Drive" "Price Boosters Set to Cash In On Henderson... Read full description -
Item #545634PM SUNDAY, New York, N.Y., dated December 13, 1942.
Headlines on the frontpage read "Mass Drafting of Married Men to Start in Spring""Axis Developing Tunisian Attack" "Russians Break Nazi Line West of Rzhev". The paper features other war news and stories of the... Read full description -
Item #545630PM SUNDAY, New York, N.Y., dated December 27, 1942.
Headlines on the frontpage read "Stalin Calls For More Guerilla Help In Ukraine" "Canned Goods Rationing Forecast for February" " British Eighth Army Gains 50 More Miles". The paper features other war news and... Read full description -
Item #545626PM DAILY, New York, N.Y., dated September 15, 1942.
Headlines on the frontpage read "The Truth About Axis Plotting in Argentia - Including a Digest of the Book President Castillo Suppressed" "Stalingrad Defenders Beat Off Nazis in 20th Day of Battle" "Truman Tells... Read full description -
Item #545624PM DAILY, New York, N.Y., dated December 29, 1942.
Headlines on the frontpage read "Wallace's Post-War World: Jobs for All and World Council to Preserve Peace" "Food Run on Despite No-Hoarding Plea" "Russians Surge On; Bypass Important Railway Center" ... Read full description -
Item #545621PM DAILY, New York, N.Y., dated November 6, 1942.
Headlines on the frontpage read "Total Defeat Threatens Hitler In Africa - Italy Next?" with other articles "U.S. Forces Start New offensive on Guadalcanal". The paper features other war news and stories of the day.
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Item #545619PM SUNDAY, New York, N.Y., dated November 8, 1942.
Headlines on the frontpage read "Mussolini Isn't Champ Any More - Rommel's Army Outruns the Italians" "Army Fires Coughlin's N.Y. Agent" " Indicted Aide of Viereck Uses Army Frank to Attack U.S. War Leaders". The... Read full description -
Item #544592THE NEWS, Frederick, Maryland, May 7, 1942.
* Madagascar Africa falls
* World War II original
This 14 page newspaper has a banner headline on the front page:
* Madagascar Naval Base Captured by British Forces
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Item #222273THE DETROIT FREE PRESS, Michigan, July 16, 1939.
* Carl G. Fisher Dies
* Indianapolis Motor Speedway Founder
This 40+ page newspaper has a three line, one column headline on page 5: "Carl G. Fisher, Pioneer in Auto Industry, Dies" with photo.
Other news of the day throughout.
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Item #221289THE DETROIT FREE PRESS, from Detroit, Michigan, dated June 24, 1944. This issue has a three line, one column headline on the front page: "30 Are Killed by Tornado in the East" with subhead: "Hundreds Injured in Pa. and W. Va.". Other news of the day throughout the issue.
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Item #216925THE NEW YORK TIMES, October 13, 1940 This 70+ page Sunday newspaper has a two line, one column headline on the front page: "TOM MIX, RIDER, DIES UNDER AUTO" with subhead: "Circus and Screen Equestrian, Cowboy Idol of Youth, Killed in Arizona Car Upset" More on page 48 with photo. Other news of the day with... Read full description -
Item #214903LIBERTY magazine, New York, December 14, 1940.
* Homemaker cover
* Get Fit!
* Colored Ads
The color cover of this issue has a very nice print of a young homemaker mixing up a messy recipe (see photos). There is no related article on this inside .
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