(The report, by the unnamed diplomatic correspondent, accuses the Nazis of lying about the death of Generalfeldmarschall Walther von Reichenau. They were quite right to be skeptical, but this time, the Nazis were telling the truth, at least most of it. The report of his death was true, but the cause is still unknown. Von Reichenau had a stroke on Jan. 14th and was being flown to Leipzig for treatment. His plane crash-landed and he received further injuries. It is unclear if he died from the effects of the stroke or the plane crash. His early death prevented him from being tried as a war criminal at Nürnberg, charges for which he very likely would have been executed. A rabid Jew hater and devoted Nazi, Reichenau oversaw the Kiev area where the Babi Yar massacre took place in Sept. of 1941. He was indicted at Nürnberg, even though he was dead, as part of the German General Staff and him specifically for the Reichenau Order, also known as the severity order.)

(While this is not out of the question, this was not the mission of the U-Boats operating off the U.S. east coast at this time. It does highlight what I have written on so many of these pages, don't give the enemy the position, mission, port of departure or arrival or any other information on movements of ships, aircraft or personnel.)

(Actress Carole Lombard, the wife of Clark Gable, her mother, one of Clark Gable's press agents, 15 U.S. Army servicemen, one female passenger and 3 crew members of the aircraft all died when it flew into a mountain outside of Las Vegas. Lombard was on a war bonds tour for the U.S. Government. It was later determined that the crash was caused by the absurd policy of shutting down the safety beacons because of the fear of air attack by the Japanese. Looking back one can see how insane the thought of the Japanese conducting an air raid on Nevada was, but the people in charge could not. They were in a major cover-your-rear end mode and nothing, no matter how ridiculous it was, had been taken off the table. You can look at the modern-day equivalent in the overreaction to the COVID epidemic. Any official could come up with any insane policy, in the name of "public safety" and it would be implemented. The destruction wrought by these policies is incalculable, but we are all paying for it still today.)

(Churchill's drugs for England - London: machine guns in the streets of Berlin.)