World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Friday, January 30, 1942
Day 883

January 30, 1942: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England.
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January 30, 1942: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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January 30, 1942: Front page of The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Mercury, Leeds, England.
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Note the report in columns 5-6: "How The Barham Went Down"
[More about HMS Barham here.]


January 30, 1942: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales.
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Note the report in column 6: "U-Boat Rammed by Free French Vessel"
(While I can't say for sure that this did not happen, I can say that no U-Boat had been sunk.)


January 30, 1942: Front page of the Evening Telegraph and Post, Dundee, Scotland.
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January 30, 1942: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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January 30, 1942: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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Note the report in columns 6-7: "Sub. Attacked Off Los Angeles"
(No Japanese submarines were sunk off California on or about this date.)


January 30, 1942: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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January 30, 1942: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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January 30, 1942: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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January 30, 1942: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.
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January 30, 1942: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C.
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Note the report in column 5: "Navy Fears New Wave Of U-Boat Attacks On Atlantic Shipping - At Least 20 Destroyed or Damaged; Pilot Reports Sighted Sub, Sank Same"
(Apparently the Navy was the source for this propaganda piece. After claiming that 80 U-Boats were in the waters off the U.S. east coast, they now claim that they have sunk or damaged no less than 20 of them. The U-Boat offensive, which started on Jan. 13, consisted of only six U-Boats. Furthermore, the total number of U-Boats sunk by U.S. forces to date was zero. The Navy knew there were only six U-Boats operating off the coast because the British told them they were on the way. The Navy positively knew they had not sunk a single U-boat, because there had been no physical evidence of a sinking and there had not been one single German sailor recovered from the water. If they had thought they probably sank any is not known to me, but they knew the number was certainly not twenty. The first U-Boat sunk by U.S. forces was U-656, which was sunk on Mar. 1, 1942 by a Lockheed Hudson flown by Ens. William Tepuni, USNR of VP-82. This was off Newfoundland. A second, U-503, was sunk off Newfoundland by Ens. Donald F. Mason of VP-82 on Mar. 15th. The first U-boat sunk off the U.S. east coast was U-85, which was sunk by USS Roper DD-147 on Apr. 14, 1942. A full two and a half months after this report.)
Also note the report in column 4: "Hitler Admits War May Not End This Year"
(On the tenth anniversary of Adolf Hitler becoming Chancellor of Germany, he gave a speech at the Berlin Sportpalast. It lasted almost 2 hours. It's a given that the press could not cover every aspect of the long and rambling diatribe given by the Führer, but they failed to mention that he, on two occasions, said that the Jews would disappear.

"They [Winston Churchill and Duff Cooper] have been individually, generation, genders and even individual men, not mentioning the Jews in this Connection, (they are our old enemies as it is, they have experienced at our hands an upsetting of their ideas' and they rightfully hate us. just as much as we hate them) we are well aware that this war could eventually only end that they be out-rooted from Europe or that they disappear."

and...

"They [Winston Churchill and Duff Cooper] have already spoken of the breaking up of the German Reich by next September, and with the help of this advance prophesy, and we say that the war will not end as the Jews imagine it will, namely, with the uprooting of the Aryans, but the result of this war will be the complete annihilation of the Jews.

Now for the first time they [Jews] will not bleed other people to death, but for the first time the old Jewish law of 'An eye for an eve, a tooth for a tooth,' will be applied. And the further this war spreads, the farther will spread this fight against the world of the ... and they will be used as food for every prison camp, and ... in every family, which will have it explained to it why ..., and the hour will come when the enemy of all times, or at least of the last thousand years, will have played his part to the end."

One would think that twice saying that an entire race was about to be annihilated, would have rated at least a single mention.)


January 30, 1942: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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January 30, 1942: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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Note the report in columns 6-7: "Another Axis Submarine Added To Growing Total Sunk By U.S."
(I refer you to the report in The Evening Star above.)


January 30, 1942: Front page of the Tucson Daily Citizen, Tucson, Arizona.
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January 30, 1942: Front page of the San Mateo Times, San Mateo, California.
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January 30, 1942: Front page of the Teltower Kreisblatt, Kreis Teltow, Brandenburg, Germany.
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1. Ins zehnte Jahr.
(Into the tenth year.)
[This was the tenth anniversary of Adolf Hitler coming to power as Chancellor of Germany.]


January 30, 1942: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP.
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1. Unser Wahlspruch damals wie heute - Unerschütterlich um den Führer geschart!
(Our motto then as now - Unshakably gathered around the Führer!)
2. Heute spricht der Führer.
(The Führer speaks today.)
3. Bengasi zurückerobert.
(Benghazi recaptured.)
4. Im alten Kampfgeist vorwärts!
(Forward in the old fighting spirit!)
5. Der 30. Jänner.
(The 30th of January.)



   
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