World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Saturday, March 7, 1942
Day 919

March 7, 1942: Front page of the News and Chronicle, London, England.
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March 7, 1942: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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Note the report in column 9: "Warship Week Challenge - KNight in Armour Threw Down Gauntlet"


March 7, 1942: Front page of The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Mercury, Leeds, England.
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March 7, 1942: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales.
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March 7, 1942: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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March 7, 1942: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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March 7, 1942: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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March 7, 1942: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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March 7, 1942: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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March 7, 1942: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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March 7, 1942: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.
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March 7, 1942: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C.
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Note the report in column 3: "Civilian Radio Production to Stop April 23"
(Not just radios, production of phonographs players are to be stopped as well.)


March 7, 1942: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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Note the report in column 4: "Gigantic U.S. Convoy Heads For Australia"
(In the body of the report it states; "Infantrymen, hundreds of crack pilots, planes, tanks, guns were in the convoy." One wonders if the unnamed correspondent or the publishers who ran the report, ever considered that maybe this was something the Japanese did not need to know about? How insane is it to telegraph to the enemy, what you are doing, and putting the lives of thousands of American soldiers and sailors at risk?)


March 7, 1942: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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Note the report in column 6: "Six Guilty In Spying Case"
(Six Nazi spies convicted in New York.)


March 7, 1942: Front page of the Tucson Daily Citizen, Tucson, Arizona.
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March 7, 1942: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California.
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March 7, 1942: Front page of the Teltower Kreisblatt, Kreis Teltow, Brandenburg, Germany.
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1. Wie fühlen Sie sich, Herr Roosevelt?
(How do you feel, Mr. Roosevelt?)


March 7, 1942: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP.
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1. Pausenlose Schläge auf die Plutokraten - Batavia gefallen - 82.500 BRT. versenkt - Großerfolge deutscher U-Boote und die japanichen Wehrmacht.
(Endless Strikes on the Plutocrats - Batavia Fallen - 82,500 GRT. sunk - major successes of German U-boats and Japanese armed forces.)



   
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