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March 21, 1942: Front page of the News and Chronicle, London, England. |
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Note the report in column 3: "Danish Yards Building German Submarines" |
(The report claims that Burmeister & Wain, a famous Danish shipbuilder, was building U-boats and merchant ships for the Germans. It probably is true that they were building merchant ship, which were taken by Germany, but I am not aware of any U-boats built by the yard.) |
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March 21, 1942: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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March 21, 1942: Front page of The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Mercury, Leeds, England. |
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March 21, 1942: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales. |
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Note the report in columns 5-6: "Nazi Damage Will Stagger Humanity" |
(Sir John Russell may not have known exactly how true his words were. After the war, the crimes committed by the Nazis did and continue to this day to stagger humanity.) |
Also note the report in column 4: "Girl Spy Sentenced" |
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March 21, 1942: Front page of the Evening Telegraph and Post, Dundee, Scotland. |
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Note the headline report: Heavy Jap Cruiser Sunk By Bombs" |
(Up to this point in the war, no Japanese cruisers had been sunk. Mikuma was the first Japanese cruiser sunk which happened at the Battle of Midway on June 6, 1942.) |
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March 21, 1942: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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March 21, 1942: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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March 21, 1942: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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March 21, 1942: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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March 21, 1942: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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March 21, 1942: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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March 21, 1942: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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Note the report in column 5: "Big Ship Torpedoed; Lightning Flashes Aid U-Boat in Attack" |
(The unnamed ship was the 9,647-ton tanker E. M. Clark, sunk by U-124 with the loss of one man.) |
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March 21, 1942: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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March 21, 1942: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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March 21, 1942: Front page of the Tucson Daily Citizen, Tucson, Arizona. |
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March 21, 1942: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California. |
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March 21, 1942: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Englands Kriegsnöte erzwingen die Wahrheit - Halifax beichtet den Yankees die Folgen deutscher Siege - Erbitterter, ruheloser Kampf gegen U-Boote, Handelsstörer und Fernbomber. |
(England's war hardships compel the truth - Halifax confesses the consequences of German victories to the Yankees - Fierce, restless fighting against U-boats, traffickers and long-distance bombers.) |
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Page published March 21, 2023 |