World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Saturday, February 14, 1942
Day 898

February 14, 1942: Front page of the News and Chronicle, London, England.
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February 14, 1942: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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February 14, 1942: Front page of The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Mercury, Leeds, England.
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Note the report in column 5: "First V.C. In Malaya"
(Lt. Colonel Charles Groves Wright Anderson awarded the Victoria Cross.)


February 14, 1942: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales.
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February 14, 1942: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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Note the headline report: "Scharnhorst And Gneisenau Now In Port - Torpedo Bomber Pilot Says Prinz Eugen Was Listing"
(No claim of damage to the heavy ships was true. The RAF did not obtain any torpedo hits on Scharnhorst, Gneisenau or Prinz Eugen.)


February 14, 1942: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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February 14, 1942: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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February 14, 1942: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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February 14, 1942: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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February 14, 1942: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.
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February 14, 1942: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C.
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(The press had given her the nickname "Flying Godiva" following an incident in 1939 when she was flying, apparently in a state of undress, and had to scramble to get back into her clothes when her aircraft engine failed and she was forced to land in a field. Since she was dressed when she landed, I wondered how they knew the story. Well, she admitted that she liked to fly without her uniform, and other things, to enjoy the sunshine.)


February 14, 1942: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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Note the report in column 2: "Ingalls Convicted As Paid Agent Of Nazi Government"
(Laura Ingalls, not to be confused with the author Laura Ingalls Wilder of Little House on the Prairie fame, was a famous aviatrix and Nazi agent operating with the Gestapo in the U.S.A. She infiltrated the America First Committee, of which Charles Lindbergh was a member, and gave several pro-Nazi, anti-intervention speeches for the committee. She was arrested in Dec. 1941 for failing to register as a paid foreign agent and served 20 months in prison. After being released she continued to spread pro-Nazi propaganda being arrested again in in July of 1944 while trying to enter Mexico carrying seditious material. She was not prosecuted in this event. She died in 1967.)


February 14, 1942: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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February 14, 1942: Front page of the Tucson Daily Citizen, Tucson, Arizona.
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February 14, 1942: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California.
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February 14, 1942: Front page of the Teltower Kreisblatt, Kreis Teltow, Brandenburg, Germany.
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1. Marschall Antonescu beim Führer.
(Marshal Antonescu with the Führer.)
2. Großer Erfolg im Kanal.
(Great success in the English Channel.)


February 14, 1942: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP.
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1. Deutsche Schlachtschiffe in der Nordsee - Luftschlacht über dem Kanal - 1 Zerstörer versenkt, 43 Flugzeuge abgeschossen.
(German battleships in the North Sea - Air battle over the Channel - 1 destroyer sunk, 43 aircraft shot down.)
[The claim that a destroyer was sunk was false, but one was damaged.]



   
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