World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Monday, September 15, 1941
Day 746

September 15, 1941: Front page of the News and Chronicle, London, England.
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Note the report in column 2: "The Red Invader Again"


September 15, 1941: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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September 15, 1941: Front page of The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Mercury, Leeds, England.
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Note the report in column 3: "Epic Fight In Atlantic"
(The attack was against convoy HG-53, which suffered eight ships sunk and one captured. (3 sunk by U-37, 5 sunk by Fw-200's of 2./KG40 and 1 captured by Admiral Hipper.) This was not an attack on a current convoy, this attack occurred back in February.)


September 15, 1941: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales.
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September 15, 1941: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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September 15, 1941: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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Note the report in columns 6-7: "Dakar Base For Nazi Submarines"
(I have no knowledge of a U-Boat base at Dakar, Senegal.)


September 15, 1941: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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September 15, 1941: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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September 15, 1941: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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September 15, 1941: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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September 15, 1941: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.
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September 15, 1941: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C.
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Note the report in column 2: "37 From Torpedoed Ship Picked Up by Tanker"
(The unnamed ship was the 5,719-ton Marken, which was sunk by U-111 on Sept. 10th. Stanvac Manila was sunk May 23, 1943 by the Japanese submarine I-17.)


September 15, 1941: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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September 15, 1941: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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September 15, 1941: Front page of the San Mateo Times, San Mateo, California.
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September 15, 1941: Front page of the Teltower Kreisblatt, Kreis Teltow, Brandenburg, Germany.
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1. Einschließung Leningrads unaufhaltsam.
(Encirclement of Leningrad unstoppable.)


September 15, 1941: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP.
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1. Von neuen Schlachterfolgen im Osten.
(New battle successes in the east.)



   
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