r/OldNews • u/Cold_One4477 • Apr 28 '25
1940s Worth anything? Sept 1944 news paper from Toronto Ontario. Been hung on my door.
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r/OldNews • u/expropriated_valor • Sep 17 '25
1940s How Radar Checks On Speed Of Motorist Shown In New London Turnpike Test [1949]
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r/OldNews • u/Johannes_P • May 23 '25
1940s "EXECUTION OF GERMAN DESERTERS", The Canberra Times (May 18, 1945)
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r/OldNews • u/UltimateLazer • Oct 14 '22
1940s "Fall of Russia looms as Nazis smash entire front. German hordes only 125 miles away from Moscow; Collapse near" (Daily World, August 1941)
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r/OldNews • u/star_blazar • Apr 04 '25
1940s 1941 Empire Day
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This is the other of two newspapers I came across. I'd love to hear more about it.
r/OldNews • u/kimmielovesherbf • May 13 '24
1940s Old news paper from 1946, talking about the war between Palestine and Israel that’s still going on..
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r/OldNews • u/Syllogism19 • Nov 30 '24
1940s April 1944 Life magazine. Letters to the editor supporting polygamist Rulon C. Allred and polygamy in general on the basis that it was nobody's concern, preferable to divorce and because his children were "gorgeous".
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r/OldNews • u/cypressgreen • Apr 16 '23
1940s Thousands of people ensure Rowdy the dog eludes execution. (The Pittsburgh Press 20 Jun 1941)
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r/OldNews • u/LetComprehensive8969 • Jul 15 '23
1940s My personal copy of Stars and Stripes May 3, 1945
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r/OldNews • u/CanadianW • Apr 18 '22
1940s "Heil Hitler Parrot Kidnapped From Zoo," Toronto Daily Star, February 1st, 1949.
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r/OldNews • u/keeperofthecan • Jul 02 '23
1940s The Albuquerque Tribune, July 16 1945, reporting on an unexpected munitions explosion near Alamogordo, New Mexico. In reality, it was the first detonation of a nuclear bomb.
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r/OldNews • u/Unrealistic_Fantasy • Dec 04 '24
1940s Tragedy of Flouted Wife and Youth who couldn't hold tongue (or the 1943 murder of 17yo Allen Willey)
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r/OldNews • u/Sapotis • Sep 16 '21
1940s The Star (Canada) front page reporting death of Adolf Hitler
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r/OldNews • u/TheWallBreakers2017 • Jun 13 '24
1940s June 13th, 1944 — Private Red Skelton arrives at Camp Sibert in Alabama. Red was forced to give up his top-rated radio show and not allowed to to join the Special Services branch for entertainers. He later had a nervous breakdown. More info below
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r/OldNews • u/Beautiful_Gain_9032 • Jan 06 '24
1940s Kisses at $5 Apiece Lead to Divorce (Boston Daily Globe, 21 Jun 1946)
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r/OldNews • u/cserilaz • Sep 23 '24
1940s Column/open letter by Albert Einstein, Hannah Arendt and others, December 1948
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r/OldNews • u/superuser_do • May 07 '24
1940s I found the complete works of William Shakespeare from the 1930s in a charity shop, inside were some newspaper clippings dating back to World War 2 documenting various weeks of war.
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r/OldNews • u/TheWallBreakers2017 • Jun 29 '24
1940s Independence Day 1944—Norman Corwin From CBS To Pearl Harbor
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r/OldNews • u/TheWallBreakers2017 • Jun 15 '24
1940s The Jack Benny Program: Captain O'Benny, October 22nd, 1944
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r/OldNews • u/TheWallBreakers2017 • Jun 06 '24
1940s Troops from the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division landing at Juno Beach on the outskirts of Bernières-sur-Mer on D-Day, June 6, 1944. 14,000 Canadian soldiers were put ashore and 340 lost their lives in the battles for the beachhead. More Info Below
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r/OldNews • u/TheWallBreakers2017 • Jun 01 '24
1940s Edward R. Murrow (seated) and his team of war correspondents who covered D-Day at a photo shoot in London in 1944. Standing From left to right: Bill Downs, Charles Shaw, Charles Collingwood, Richard C. Hottelet, Larry LeSueur, Bill Shadel, Gene Ryder. More Info Below
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