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February 16, 1941: Front page of The People, London, England. |
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February 16, 1941: Front page of the Sunday Pictorial, London, England. |
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February 16, 1941: Front page of The Sunday Post, Glasgow, Scotland. |
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February 16, 1941: Front page of The Sunday Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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Note the report at bottom left: "Fear Super-Raiders Now In Pacific" |
(The report, based on the views of some New York exporters, speculates that Scharnhorst and two other German ships were fitted out as auxiliary cruisers in Japan and were now at work in the Pacific. The speculation may have been based on an earlier report about Scharnhorst being converted in Japan. Neither report was true. The passenger ship Scharnhorst, not the famous German battleship of the same name, was built in 1934 had been in Japan since the beginning of the war unable to return to Germany. The ship was bought by the Japanese and converted into the aircraft carrier Shinyo. She was sunk by USS Spadefish SS-411 Nov. 17, 1944. While the report was not true, there were several Hilfskreuzer (auxiliary cruisers) at work in the Pacific, but all had sailed from Germany some months earlier.) |
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February 16, 1941: Front page of The Sunday Star, Washington, D.C. |
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Note the report at bottom left: "Athens Announcer Apologizes; 700 Men, Not 7.000, seized" |
(The day before they announced the capture of 7,000 Italians.) |
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February 16, 1941: Front page of the Detroit Times, Detroit, Michigan. |
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Note the report in column 5: "Donovan's Wallet, Papers Intact, Found" |
(Apparently Wild Bill Donovan lost his passport, money and other material soon after visiting King Boris at the palace in Sofia, Bulgaria. It was returned to Ambassador Earle's office by the Bulgarian political police.) |
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February 16, 1941: Front page of The Sunday Star-News, Wilmington, North Carolina. |
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February 16, 1941: Front page of The Kingsport Times, Kingsport, Tennessee. |
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Note the headline report RAF Stages Heaviest Raid On Coast - Giant Fires Set To Thwart Nazi Invasion Attempt" |
(If the British had known, perhaps the war would have been shorter, but it was not the RAF bombings that stopped the invasion, it was Hitler.) |
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February 16, 1941: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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February 16, 1941: Front page of The Cedar Rapids Gazette, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. |
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February 16, 1941: Front page of The Montana Standard, Butte, Montana. |
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February 16, 1941: Front page of the Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada. |
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February 16, 1941: Front page of the Oakland Tribune, Oakland, California. |
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February 16, 1941: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Mitleidlose Erstickung Deutschlands. |
(Merciless suffocation of Germany.) |
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Page published February 16, 2022 |