World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Wednesday March 5, 1941
Day 552

March 5, 1941: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England.
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March 5, 1941: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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March 5, 1941: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales.
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March 5, 1941: Front page of the Evening Telegraph and Post, Dundee, Scotland.
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March 5, 1941: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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March 5, 1941: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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March 5, 1941: Front page of The News, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
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March 5, 1941: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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March 5, 1941: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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March 5, 1941: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.
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March 5, 1941: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C.
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Note the report in column 5: "Navy Pilot Testing New FIghter Killed In Norbeck Crash"
(Lt. Seymour Johnson was testing the Grumman F4F-3 Wildcat.)
Also note the report in columns 4-5: "German Suicide U-Boat Fleet Being Built, Commons Told"
(I have no idea where Capt. Cunningham Reid got his information from, but it was completely untrue. No such U-boats were being developed, by late 1943 the regular U-boats were enough of a suicide craft that no others were needed. The Germans did develop some midget subs and some human torpedoes, but these were much later in the war.)
Also note the report in column 6: "Widemann Accused Of Directing Nazi Spying in U.S."
(Fritz Widemann was never convicted of any espionage charges, and was in fact, an anti-Nazi. There is one sentence in the report which is worth noting. In the last sentence in paragraph three, Mrs. Crockett states that Widemann told her that the German government had a plan to "Promote strife and class hatred...for the purpose of destroying unity and undermining the strength of the United States." Such a plan, had it been carried out, have been devastating to the country. That is not an opinion, it is a fact. The democrat party, the American left, the communists, the socialists, the left-wing media, universities and the government education system have done exactly this for many years. We now see the results every day. Like I said, devastating.)


March 5, 1941: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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March 5, 1941: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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March 5, 1941: Front page of The Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada.
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March 5, 1941: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California.
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March 5, 1941: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany.
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1. Englischer Handstreich gegen unbefestigte norwegische Schären=Insel.
(English coup against an unfortified Norwegian archipelago-island.)
[The headline refers to the British commando raid on Lofoten Island.)
2. Durchpeitschung der USA-Bill 1776! - Roosevelt will Großlieferung in 14 Tagen.
(Passing through the US Bill 1776! - Roosevelt wants bulk delivery in 14 days.)


March 5, 1941: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP.
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1. Bankrott der demokratischen Auslese.
(Bankruptcy of the democratic elite.)



   
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