World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Saturday May 24, 1941
Day 632

May 24, 1941: Front page of the Nottingham Evening Post, Nottingham, England.
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May 24, 1941: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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May 24, 1941: Front page of the Evening Express, Liverpool, England.
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May 24, 1941: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales.
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May 24, 1941: Front page of the Evening Telegraph and Post, Dundee, Scotland.
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May 24, 1941: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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May 24, 1941: Front page of the Daily Telegraph, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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May 24, 1941: Front page of The News, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
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May 24, 1941: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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May 24, 1941: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.
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May 24, 1941: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C.
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Note the headline report: "Hood Blown Up And Sunk Off Iceland In Fight With Nazi Battleship Bismarck"


May 24, 1941: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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May 24, 1941: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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May 24, 1941: Front page of The Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada.
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May 24, 1941: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California.
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May 24, 1941: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany.
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1. Die Schlacht ums Mittelmeer geht weiter.
(The battle of the Mediterranean goes on.)


May 24, 1941: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP.
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1. Großangriff deutscher U=Boote.
(Major attacks by German U-Boats.)
2. 110.000 BRT. englischen Geleitzügen vernichtet.
(110,000 GRT. destroyed in British convoys.)
Note the report in column 1: "Günther Prien"
(The German high command finally admits the loss of U-47 and Kapitänleutnant Günther Prien. The last contact with U-47 took place on Mar. 7, 1941. The boat was probably sunk later that day while attacking convoy OB-293 by HMS Camellia K-31 (Lt. Cdr. Alfred Ernest Willmott, RNR) and HMS Arbutus K-86 (Lt. Cdr. Hugh Lloyd-Williams, RNVR.) There were no survivors. Of the top 10 highest scoring U-boat commanders (by tonnage, Prien was #9,) Prien was the only one to lose his life during the war. Wolfgang Lüth, the second highest scoring C.O. was killed days after Germany surrendered, he was shot by a German sentry on May. 13, 1945.)



   
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