Die Invasion hat begonnen!

June 6, 2004 4:37 PM

Front Pages of News Papers from Tuesday June 6th and Wendsday June 7th 1944
The wonderful Newseum provides a look back at some of the front pages from newspapers reporting the invasion of "Fortress Europe" 60 years ago today.
posted by Steve_at_Linnwood (13 comments total)

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posted by Steve_at_Linnwood at 4:39 PM on June 6, 2004

Very nice.
posted by Jimbob at 5:10 PM on June 6, 2004

If you only read the headlines a lot of them seem like the "bad" guys invaded rather than an ally.
posted by riffola at 5:15 PM on June 6, 2004

I don't think i've ever seen a red headline before--weird. Cool site.
posted by amberglow at 5:32 PM on June 6, 2004

A great collection, but it would be nice if they'd let you look at the entire front page at once.
posted by mrbula at 6:23 PM on June 6, 2004

Good link. Thanks.
posted by dazed_one at 6:26 PM on June 6, 2004

riffola: many of the newspapers are German... and um, we were the bad guys... :-)
posted by sunexplodes at 6:41 PM on June 6, 2004

Great content, horrible interface.
posted by inpHilltr8r at 6:48 PM on June 6, 2004

CBC has done the Newseum one better by showing what their home page looked like on June 6, 1944.
posted by soyjoy at 7:03 PM on June 6, 2004

That CBC page is... weird. Great link, Steve.
posted by louie at 7:52 PM on June 6, 2004

Bad web designers! If you want to use a popup, give it a real href too.

It is kind of cool that you can zoom in and read all the text. I wish the "paper window" was bigger though. Not everyone has 640x480 anymore.
posted by smackfu at 8:19 PM on June 6, 2004

Awesome link. Thanks. I would agree with the previous comment about the size of the "paper window."
posted by blucevalo at 9:05 PM on June 6, 2004

What inpHilltr8r said.
posted by pmurray63 at 9:23 PM on June 6, 2004