15 World War II Newspapers from the US and UK in an archival box — 1939 - 1945

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Read history as it happened in these US and UK newspapers and you will begin to feel what people were experiencing during WWII.

Beginning in 1939 and continuing through to 1945, the issues cover a wide range of events. I've included below a list of the issues along with the major story or stories in each.

When I was going through these I was surprised by some of the things I read, and I thought I was fairly familiar with the events of WWII. I expect you'll be surprised, too, and you'll come away with a better sense of what it must of been like on the home front, not knowing how long the war was going to last or how many people would die and how many cities destroyed before it was all over.

In an archival blue/grey archival metal edge preservation box that is 20.5"W x 16"D x 3"H, which means you have room items you wish to preserve. Each is in a protective polypropylene sleeve.

— Lee Wright | Founder

Includes these newspapers:

• September 4, 1939 - Daily Mirror (UK) - "Britain’s First Day of War: Churchill is New Navy Chief — Britain and Germany Have Been at War Since Eleven O’Clock Yesterday Morning” — "Poles Attack"

  September 27, 1939 - Telegraph & Independent (UK) - “Nazis Move Big Forces From Poland to West — Alarm at French Drive Near Siegfried Gap"

  May 10, 1940 - Evening Standard (UK) - “British Land in Iceland to Prevent Nazis from Seizing It"

  June 11, 1940 - Daily Sketch (UK) - "Italy Takes the Plunge Into War at Midnight — Italy is To-Day at War With France and Britain, After Eight Hours’ Notice of Her Decision” — Includes hour by hour account.
  
  
  June 14, 1940 - The Daily Mail (UK) - “Paris: The Gravest Hour — German Hordes to the East and West — Refugees Streaming from the City” — “Britain’s 2 a.m. Vow to France — ‘We Shall Never Turn Back’” — "Roosevelt told ‘Your Turn Now’"
  
  
  July 15, 1940 - The Daily Telegraph (UK) - “Mr. Churchill and an Invasion — Ready, Undismayed, to Meet It — ‘We Seek No Terms & Ask No Mercy — London in Ruins Better than Enslavement"
  

  
  

  June 23, 1940 - Sunday Dispatch (UK) - “Mme. Tabouis Tells of His Escape From Nazis” — “Children Flee—To Starve and Die"

  
  

  December 31, 1940 - The Daily Mail (UK) - “Hitler Planned Monday Swoop — London was to Blaze First” — “America Moves — Big Arms Flow Has Begun"

  
  

  May 31, 1941 - Daily Express (UK) - "The Kill: Bismark, Hitler’s pride, goes down in flames—then down in pieces. U-boat and bombers stopped rescuers"

  
  

  December 7, 1941 - Honolulu Star-Bulletin 1st Extra (Reprint) - “War! Oahu Bombed by Japanese Planes — Six Known Dead, 21 Injured, at Emergency Hospital"

  
  

  May 8, 1942 - Cleveland News (Reprint) - “U.S. in Greatest Sea Battle — Ten Jap Warships Sunk and 6 Damaged as Gigantic Fight Roars on in Pacific” — “East Faces 3-Gallon Gas Ration"

  
  

  June 5, 1942 - Cleveland News (Reprint) - “Midway Smashes Jap Raid” — “U.S. Will Use Poison Gas, Roosevelt Says"

  
  

  May 3, 1945 - News Chronicle (UK) - “1,000,000 Germans Surrender in Italy and West Austria” — "Stalin reports the capture of Berlin complete” — “Churchill Tells M.P.s of Long, Secret Talks” — “Building the Hitler Legend"

  
  

  June 17, 1945 - The Philadelphia Inquirer - "Japan Orders Women to Join Battle Line if Homeland is Invaded"
  
  
  June 20, 1945 - The Philadelphia Inquirer - "Japs Leap to Death From Okinawa Cliffs as Battle Nears End” — "Nazi Hoard Uncovered"

The three reprints include the entire paper. The other 12 include several pages of that day's paper.

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