World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Thursday November 21, 1940
Day 448

November 21, 1940: Front page of the Nottingham Evening Post, Nottingham, England.
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November 21, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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November 21, 1940: Front page of the Birmingham Gazette, Birmingham, England.
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November 21, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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Note the report in column 1: "Nazi E-Boat Sunk"
(This report was true. The Schnellboot S-38 was sunk by HMS Campbell.)
 
Also note the report in column 5: "Two New German Battleships"
(This report was half true. Bismarck had been commissioned Aug. 24, 1940, but was still working up in the Baltic, Tirpitz was still fitting out and was not commissioned until Feb. 25, 1941.)


November 21, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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November 21, 1940: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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Note the headline: "24 Dead In Minesweeper Collision"
(HMAS Goorangai, a converted trawler, became the first Australian warship lost in the Second World War. The ship that sank it, a passenger ship named Duntroon, sank a second ship in another collision. On Nov. 29, 1943, while serving as a troopship, she collided with and sank USS Perkins DD-377 off New Guinea.)


November 21, 1940: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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November 21, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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November 21, 1940: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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Note the photos at top left: "Italian Raider Sinks"
(The submarine is not identified, but the details and the photos indicate that this shows the loss of the submarine Durbo on Oct. 18, 1940. She was sunk by HMS Firedrake and two Saunders Roe London Flying Boats. The photo at top left shows a pontoon, which looks like one from a London flying boat.)


November 21, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.
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November 21, 1940: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C.
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November 21, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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November 21, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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Note the report in columns 2-4: "32 States Observe Thanksgiving Day WIth Prayers And Feasting"
(For the second year President Roosevelt had changed the date that Thanksgiving would be observed.)


November 21, 1940: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California.
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November 21, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany.
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1. Vergeltung gegen Stadt in den Ost-Midlands.
(Retaliation against a city in the East Midlands.)
2. Amerikanische Berichter melden neuen schwersten Angriff.
(American press reports another very serious attack.)


November 21, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP.
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1. Der Führer in Wien.
(The Führer in Vienna.)
2. Dreierpakt als Mittelpunkt der neuen Ordnung.
(Tripartite Pact as the center of the new order.)



   
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