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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.] |
Page published February 14, 2023 |