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November 5, 1940: Front page of the Nottingham Evening Post, Nottingham, England. |
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Note the photo at top right: "Bombed, But Safe In Port" |
Also note the report in column 1: "Two More U-Boats Sunk" |
(This time it was true, both U-31 and U-32 had recently been sunk. U-32 was the boat which sank the Empress of Britain.) |
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November 5, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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Note the report in column 8: "3 Submarines Sunk Off Gibraltar" |
(Depending on the time period, this is mostly true, but they make no mention of how recently they had been sunk.) |
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November 5, 1940: Front page of the Derby Evening Telegraph, Derby, England. |
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November 5, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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November 5, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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November 5, 1940: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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November 5, 1940: Front page of The News, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. |
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November 5, 1940: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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November 5, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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November 5, 1940: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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Note the report in column 7" U-Boats Greater Peril Than Air Attackers, Churchill Warns" |
Also note the report in columns 6-7: "British Propose U.S. Abolish 40-Hour Week to Speed Aid" |
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November 5, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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November 5, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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November 5, 1940: Front page of The Helena Independent, Helena, Montana. |
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November 5, 1940: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California. |
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November 5, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. 20 000 Wohnungen und neue Krankenhäuser für Hamburg geplant |
(20,000 apartments and new hospitals planned for Hamburg.) |
2. Widersprüche um englisches Eisenbahnunglück. |
(Contradictions concerning the English rail accident.) |
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November 5, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Vorarbeit für den Sieg - Die großen Sozialplanungen des Führers. |
(Preparing for victory - The big social plans of the Führer.) |
Note the report at bottom: "Kapitänleutnant Kretschmer versenkte 217.198 BRT." |
(Kapitänleutnant Kretschmer has sunk 217,198 GRT.) |
[The photo and caption of Otto Kretschmer at top left is announcing that he is being awarded the Eichenlaub (Oak Leaves) for his Ritterkreuz (Knight's Cross) by the Führer. Kretschmer would become the top U-boat commander of World War II, sinking 46 ships for over 270,000 tons. Which makes him the second highest scoring submarine commander in history. Kapitänleutnant
(later Vizeadmiral) Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière sank 195 ships for an astonishing 455,000 tons during the Great War. Kretschmer may have caught him by tonnage had he had been at sea longer. He did all his damage in only a year and a half from Oct. 1939 to Mar. 1941. (The second highest scoring U-boat commander of World War II was Wolfgang Lüth, who sank 47 ships for a total of over 225,000 tons, but it took him 47 months to accomplish that.) In Mar. 1941 Kretschmer was captured when his U-99 was sunk and he remained a prisoner of war until 1947. After the war he joined the Bundesmarine and retired as a
Flotillenadmiral.
Otto Kretschmer died in 1998.] |
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Page published November 5, 2021 |
