Daily News scans from WWII

These come from a guy on Freerepublic.com. He sends them to all who ask. I will post them as often as I can.

Todays Headline : [SIZE=+1]ROOSEVELT ESTABLISHES COMBAT AREA (11/5/39)[/SIZE]

ROOSEVELT ESTABLISHES COMBAT AREA (11/5/39)

enjoy

Ted

 

Thanks Lou

You are right about the newspapers - I quit paying for them. The story below, if written today, would be filled with politicians being quoted about how we shouldn't have attempted to take out Hitler as he has civil rights. The writers today give us their opinions - not the news

There was a link at the bottom of the freerepublic thread which leads to a Chronology of WWII site and on it was an interesting story of a British attempt at assassination of Hitler on this day the 9th.

"In Holland... Two British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) officers, Major Richard Stevens and Captain S. Payne Best, are kidnapped by the Gestapo while attempting to contact members of the German resistance to the Nazis. The two British agents have been meeting with a "Major Schaemmle" who claims to represent German Army officers plotting to overthrow Hitler. (He is actually Walther Schellenberg, a Gestapo officer.) Their meetings have been at Venlo, 5 miles (8 km) from the German border. Today, they are to meet at a cafe a few yards from the border. Upon arriving, their car is hit by machinegun fire, they are overpowered by German security forces and forcibly taken across the border. Himmler ordered the kidnapping immediately after the Munich bombing incident. One of the officers is carrying a list of British agents with him and from this and other indiscretions as well as from their interrogation, the German authorities are able to arrest many British agents in former Czechoslovakia and other occupied territory. The Venlo Incident is a serious setback for British Intelligence. Both officers remain imprisoned until April 1945.

Ted

 

NORWAY REJECTS GERMAN PROTEST OVER FLINT ACTION (11/6/39)

 

REDS URGE WORLD REVOLT, INCLUDE REICH AS CAPITALIST (11/7/39)

 

Thanks Opana
You appear to appreciate history as much as I.

 

Sig?
sorry I haven't learned that yet. How?

 

If you haven't run across this site yet Ted, it is alot of fun as well. Thanks for your link, I'll add it to my faves for sure. Anyway...

Goto:

TIME Magazine Covers - TIME Covers - TIME Magazine Cover Archive

and scroll down to the section that asks you to "find your birthday". Then enter an early Jan. day, and a year from 1929 (or whenever) on up to today. It will take you to the first Jan. edition of Time magazine for 1929. You can then enter "contents" and read the entire mag. online for that week. Then goto the top of that page and click "next issue" and read the next one, and so on and so on.

Great resource as well, and as others have mentioned a great waster of your time if you aren’t careful about it!

 

Clint

that is incredible. thanks, I had fun going there and reading some of the stories. It is absolutely amazing that we can access all of this info. Can you imagine how hard it would have been for those in 1940 to get the same kind of info about 1916. And how amazing is it that most don't use it. Too occupied with reality shows etc.



thank you for the great resource.

Ted

 

Opana,

20 year vet USN

thank you for your service. Started out in a tough time for our country especially for the military. I was in junior high without a care in the world. Little did I know

take care
Ted

 

I once spent hours viewing reels of the New York Times from 1939 to just before December 7, 1941. I was struck by the advertisments such as "Ford Builds Trucks For the Army" and "Chesterfield Cigarettes For Our Men in Uniform!" And this was a full year or more before the attack on Pearl Harbor. If you were alive at the time, and read the New York Times on a regular basis, there is not doubt that the US was on a path toward war. Keep the articles coming. Thanks.

Greg C.

 

This one is a bit harder to navigate, but it too will take you back to the early years of the publications existance "online", the reason it is less "easy" is that the entire magazine is there, ads and all. But Popular Mechanics had alot of interesting "what's new" stuff that did eventually come to pass.

Goto:

Popular Mechanics - Google Books

I especially enjoy going to the war years between 1939 and 1945 to check up on "what they thought" was going to appear.

 

Yes, the "What" (ideas) comes easy. The "How" takes a bit longer.

Greg C.

 

HITLER ESCAPES BOMB EXPLOSION BY 15 MINUTES (11/9/39)

 

FATAL BORDER CLASH STIRS DUTCH (11/10/39)