World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Friday May 22, 1942
Day 995

May 22, 1942: Front page of the News and Chronicle, London, England.
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Over the wireless:
May 22, 1942: CBS News A.M. Edition.


May 22, 1942: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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Note the report at top right: "Japanese Cruiser Destroyed"
(While submarines had sunk several Japanese merchant ships, there had been no cruiser, not even a destroyer had been sunk. The first Japanese cruiser sunk was the Mikuma, which was sunk in the Battle of Midway on June 6, 1942.)
Also note the report in column 4: "Norwegian Patrols - Murdered for Escape Attempt"
(15 Norwegians executed by Nazis for trying to escape to England. In addition to that, 50 Norwegian teachers were left to drown by the Nazis when the small boat they were in was intercepted and sunk by a patrol boat.)
 
Also note the report in column 4: "Mass Murderer"
(Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler identified as a mass murderer, by an unidentified New York Times writer.)
 
Also note the report in column 5: "Last Silk Stockings"


May 22, 1942: Front page of The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Mercury, Leeds, England.
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Note the report at top right: "V.C.'s For Three Heroes Of St. Nazaire"


May 22, 1942: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales.
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May 22, 1942: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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May 22, 1942: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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Note the report in column 8: "U.S. Building 58,000-ton Battleships"
(The report was about the Iowa class battleships, but they were not quite 58,000 tons.)


May 22, 1942: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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May 22, 1942: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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May 22, 1942: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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May 22, 1942: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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Note the report in column 3: "Churchill Spurns Punishment Plan For All Germans"
Also note the report in columns 1-2: "Mosquito Blitz Dying Down With Heavy Casualties"


May 22, 1942: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.
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Note the report in column 4: "Indict 61 On Lottery Charge"
(61 people were charged in New York for running a clearing house lottery, A.K.A. the numbers racket. Now the numbers racket is run by the government. You will note that many states have taken over the drug trade as well, allowing marijuana sales in government approved stores. Seems as long as they "kick-up" to the government, drugs like marijuana are really not that bad after all. They called it the war on drugs, but now the drug dealer is approved by the government. It was more like the war on drug money not coming to the government, was it not?)


May 22, 1942: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C.
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Note the report in columns 6-7: "Enemy Agents Landed in Maine, Civil Defense Official Reveals"
(The report does not say that any "agents" had been intercepted, only that they have "accurate information" that they had been landed. If you have followed these pages, you should already know that "accurate information" is most often not accurate at all. I have no information to suggest that enemy agents had, at that time, been landed in the U.S.A. But, on June 12, (13th US time) U-202 dropped off a number of saboteurs on Long Island, New York, and on June 17 U-201 dropped off a group in Florida. These were the first known instances of the Germans landing agents on U.S. soil.)
Also note the report in column 2: "Cruiser Prinz Eugen Runs Blockade and Arrives at Kiel"
(Not bad for a ship which, it was reported, took two torpedo hits a couple of days ago.)
 
Also note the report in column 3: "U.S. Maryland Class Battleship Sunk by Sub, Italy Claims"
(This report was, of course, a lie.)


May 22, 1942: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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Note the report in column 2: "Sinking Traced To 5th Columnists"
(The Master of the 5,189-ton tanker Gulfoil, A. Henry Rowe, claims a fifth columnist provided information on his ship to the the U-boat. Gulfoil, was sunk by U-506 on May 16. Twenty-one men were lost with the ship, but there is no evidence that anyone on U.S. soil had ever sent signals directly to a German submarine. There were, of course, German agents that monitored the ports and were able to get this info back to Germany. I don't know if any were active on the Louisiana or Texas coasts, but it was known that they operated in New York and other important east coast ports.)


May 22, 1942: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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May 22, 1942: Front page of the Tucson Daily Citizen, Tucson, Arizona.
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May 22, 1942: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California.
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Note the report in column 5: "First Treason Case Launched by Biddle"
(This treason case was filed against a German-American who allegedly assisted an escaped German prisoner from Canada. The following is not directly related to that, but I wonder if anyone will file treason charges against former FBI Director James Comey, former CIA Director John Brennan, former CIA Director James Clapper, former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, former FBI agent Peter Strzok, Senator Chuck Schumer, Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, Congressman Adam Schiff, Congressman Eric Swalwell and any others who were involved in the Coup d'état against President Trump and the American people. As the Durham report clearly lays out, these people and others lied to obtain warrants, lied to begin an investigation against Trump, which they knew there was no basis for, and prosecuted that investigation against President Trump with the goal of removing him from office. If this was not high treason, nothing is. Those people and others, should be arrested immediately, charged with treason and, if found guilty, should be given the ultimate penalty prescribed by law, in this case, the penalty is death.)


May 22, 1942: Front page of the Teltower Kreisblatt, Kreis Teltow, Brandenburg, Germany.
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1. Die Sowjets verloren 1000 Panzer.
(The Soviets lost 1000 tanks.)


May 22, 1942: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP.
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1. Starke deutsche Gegenangriffe im Raum von Charkow.
(Strong German counterattacks in the Kharkov area.)
[In an interview on May 16, 2023 on CBS Mornings, former president Barack Hussein-Obama was asked what about the country keeps him up at night? Here is his answer; "The thing that I'm most worried about is the degree to which we've now had a divided conversation, in part because we have a divided media," he said. "When I was coming up, you had three TV stations [ABC, NBC, CBS.] and people were getting a similar sense [ie: the same message from all three sources] of what is true and what isn't, what was real and what was not. Today, what I'm most concerned about is the fact that because of the splintering of the media, [ie: Fox News and other more conservative media] we almost occupy different realities. Now, people will say, 'Well, that didn't happen, or I don't believe that." The above newspaper [the official newspaper of the Nazi party] is apparently more in line with what Obama would like to see in the USA. One party, one story, no difficult questions, no descent. A true totalitarian this guy.]



   
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