World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Wednesday January 1, 1941
Day 489

January 1, 1941: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England.
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Note the headline report: "Women And Children In Nazi Raider Still"
(Almost 500 survivors from ships sunk by the German Hilfskreuzer [auxiliary cruisers] Komet and Orion landed on the island of Emirau.)


January 1, 1941: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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January 1, 1941: Front page of the Birmingham Gazette, Birmingham, England.
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January 1, 1941: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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January 1, 1941: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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January 1, 1941: Front page of the Daily Telegraph, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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January 1, 1941: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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January 1, 1941: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C.
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January 1, 1941: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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January 1, 1941: Front page of The Montana Standard, Butte, Montana.
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January 1, 1941: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California.
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January 1, 1941: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP.
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1. Der Führer an Volk und Wehrmacht.
(The Führer to the people and the armed forces.)
2. Das Jahr 1941 wird die Vollendung dea großten Sieges unserer Geschichte bringen.
(The year 1941 will bring us the greatest victory in our history.)



   
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