World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Sunday August 17, 1941
Day 717

August 17, 1941: Front page of The People, London, England.
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August 17, 1941: Front page of the Sunday Pictorial, London, England.
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August 17, 1941: Front page of The Sunday Post, Glasgow, Scotland.
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August 17, 1941: Front page of The Sunday Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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Note the report in column 1: "Thargomindah Bunyip Now Has A Mate"
(A mythical creature, much smaller than Nessie, that was never photographed, and never found, but reported in the Australian press until mid-Sept. After which, it was never heard of again.)
Also note the report in column 1: "40 Doctors Failed To Save Doctor"
(Forty doctors tried to save Dr. Mato Nagayo, a noted cancer specialist who had pneumonia. Sometimes when it's your time, nothing and nobody can save you.)


August 17, 1941: Front page of The Sunday Star, Washington, D.C.
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August 17, 1941: Front page of The Sunday Star-News, Wilmington, North Carolina.
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August 17, 1941: Front page of the Detroit Times, Detroit, Michigan.
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August 17, 1941: Front page of The Kingsport Times, Kingsport, Tennessee.
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Note the report in column 6: "Der Furrer"
(A cat named Adolf, for obvious reasons. I would have called him Kitler.)


August 17, 1941: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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August 17, 1941: Front page of the Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada.
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August 17, 1941: Front page of the Oakland Tribune, Oakland, California.
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Note the report in columns 1-2: "Thousands See Ship Launched"
(Ocean Vanguard, the first of sixty ships to be built for Great Britain, was launched at Todd-California Shipyard in Richmond, California. The report calls this a 10,000-ton ship, but it was really 7,174 tons. It was completed on Oct. 27, 1941 and survived until Sept. 13, 1942 when U-515 torpedoed and sank the ship. Eleven men went down with it.)


August 17, 1941: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP.
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1. Wer muß wem helfen?
(Who has to help whom?)
2. Der Kniefall vor dem Moskauer Blutsäufer.
(Kneeling before the Moscow blood drinker.)
3. Erfolgreicher Operationsverlauf im Osten.
(Successful course of operations in the east.)



   
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