World War 2 Newspaper Cuttings

Updated: 28 April 2005

Saturday June 10 1944 - Daily Mail

Small block refers to General Patton's "Army" in Kent. Significant in that the Germans still believed that the main thrust was coming via the Pas de Calais and that General Pattons' "rubber" inflatable army in Kent was real!!

The following are from

Monday 12 June 1944 - Daily Mail


Observer Sun June 11 1944

Observer June 12th 1944

From Daily Sketch 4th September 1939

See also

http://www.mikekemble.com/ww2/britsubthetis.html

These two are from the Daily Sketch September 4th 1939

Daily Mirror 28th May 1941 reports on the sinking of the Bismarck. At that time, and for many years later, everyone believed that the Dorsetshire sent her to the bottom of the Atlantic.

See: http://www.mikekemble.com/bismarck.html

The reference to the 500 plane raid was German planes attacking the Royal Navy in Crete


Daily Sketch June 3rd 1940

Daily Mirror May 28th 1941 about some new "drug"

Wednesday 2nd May 1945 (Reprint)


Wednesday 2nd May 1945 Daily Mail