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October 17, 1941: Front page of the News and Chronicle, London, England. |
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October 17, 1941: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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October 17, 1941: Front page of The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Mercury, Leeds, England. |
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October 17, 1941: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales. |
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October 17, 1941: Front page of the Evening Telegraph and Post, Dundee, Scotland. |
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October 17, 1941: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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October 17, 1941: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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October 17, 1941: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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October 17, 1941: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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October 17, 1941: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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October 17, 1941: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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October 17, 1941: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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Note the report in columns 1-2: "Destroyer Kearny Is Torpedoed Off Iceland; Crew Safe, Ship Continues Under Own Power" |
(Contrary to the report, not all the crew was safe, eleven men had been killed in the attack. This was the first time there was loss of life on a U.S. Navy ship attacked by a German vessel in World War II. The attack was made by U-568, which was sunk on May 28, 1942 by British warships.) |
[The report mentions the USS Greer incident, which took place in September. For information on that, see "Naval Patrol Hunts Submarine in Attack On Destroyer Greer" in The Evening Star of Sept. 5, 1941.] |
Also note the report in column 2: "Roosevelt Awaiting Full Report Before Comment on Kearny" |
Also note the report in column 2: "Nobel Prizes Suspended" |
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October 17, 1941: Front page of The Freeport Journal-Standard, Freeport, Illinois. |
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Note the report at bottom right: "Mary Ellen Reardon Passes 6th Birthday; Mysterious Sleep Grips Her Since 1938" |
(This is the last wartime report I was able to find about Mary Ellen. The last report about her I was able to find was published on Sept. 15, 1946, and she was only one of the subjects in the article.) |
| [See "Doomed To Sleep" by William Engle in The San Antonio Light of Sept. 19, 1946.] |
Also note the report at bottom left: "Kearny's Stout Construction Credited With Keeping Her Afloat; Probably Hit on Bow" |
(As usual, the first reports, I should say "opinions," are wrong. Kearny was not hit in the bows, but took a direct hit on the starboard side, amidships.) |
Also note the report in column 7: "House Passes Bill To Arm Cargo Ships" |
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October 17, 1941: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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October 17, 1941: Front page of The Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada. |
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Note the report in column 5: "Death Probed - Cyanide Discovered In Medicine" |
(Long before the Tylenol cyanide poisonings of 1982. Guess it's true, what goes around, comes around.) |
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October 17, 1941: Front page of the San Mateo Times, San Mateo, California. |
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October 17, 1941: Front page of the Teltower Kreisblatt, Kreis Teltow, Brandenburg, Germany. |
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1. Die Hafenstadt Odessa gefallen. |
(The port city of Odessa has fallen.) |
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October 17, 1941: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Die Sowjets müssen ihre Niederlage selbst eingestehen. |
(The Soviets must admit defeat themselves.) |
2. Moskaus Verteidigungsgürtel erreicht. |
(Moscow's defensive belt reached.) |
3. Kämpfe 100 Kilometer vor der Sowjetmetropole - Kaluga und Kalinin in Unserer Hand. |
(Fighting 100 kilometers from the Soviet metropolis - Kaluga and Kalinin in our hands.) |
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Page published October 17, 2022 |
