World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Thursday April 10, 1941
Day 588

April 10, 1941: Front page of the Nottingham Evening Post, Nottingham, England.
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April 10, 1941: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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Note the report in column 1: "Smaller Papers"
(The Daily Mail announcing that the paper would be smaller due to the war.)
[See "Newspapers to be Smaller" in the Birmingham Gazette of Mar. 4, 1941.]


April 10, 1941: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales.
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April 10, 1941: Front page of the Evening Telegraph and Post, Dundee, Scotland.
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April 10, 1941: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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April 10, 1941: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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Note the report in columns 5-6: "Navy Made Wolf Pack Howl"
(The Admiralty releases the news that the top scoring U-boat commander of World War II, Otto Kretschmer, had been captured when his U-boat, U-99, was sunk.)


April 10, 1941: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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April 10, 1941: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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April 10, 1941: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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April 10, 1941: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.
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April 10, 1941: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C.
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April 10, 1941: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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April 10, 1941: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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April 10, 1941: Front page of The Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada.
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April 10, 1941: Front page of the San Mateo Times, San Mateo, California.
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April 10, 1941: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany.
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1. USA über Balkan-Entwicklung schwer enttäuscht.
(USA severely disappointed in Balkan developments.)


April 10, 1941: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP.
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1. Der 9. April - ein stolzer Tag der deutschen Wehrmacht. Kapitulation der griechischen Armee östlich des Vardar Die britisch-jugoslawischen Streitkräfte abgetrennt.
(April 9th - a proud day of the German Wehrmacht. Surrender of the Greek army east of the Vardar British-Yugoslav forces separated.)
2. 14 britische und serbische Generale und 22.000 Mann gefangengenommen.
(14 British and Serbian generals and 22,000 men captured.)



   
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