World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Wednesday January 15, 1941
Day 503

January 15, 1941: Front page of the Nottingham Evening Post, Nottingham, England.
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Note the report in column 6: "Atlantic Air Record Broken"


January 15, 1941: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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January 15, 1941: Front page of the Birmingham Gazette, Birmingham, England.
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Note the headline report: "Three Warships Hit - But Convoy Gets Through"
(The Admiralty downplayed the damage received by these three ships. HMS Illustrious sustained serious damage and almost 130 men killed, HMS Gallant lost 60 men. HMS Southampton lost 80 men and was so badly damaged that she was scuttled by HM cruisers Orion and Glasgow. This happened four days before this report was published, so the Admiralty was well aware of the extent of what had happened.)


January 15, 1941: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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January 15, 1941: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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Note the report in column 6: "British Ship Fight Submarine"
(SS Shakespeare was sunk by the Italian submarine Comandante Cappellini on Jan. 5. Twenty of the forty-four-man crew were lost.)


January 15, 1941: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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Note the report in columns 5-6: "Boy Flew Crazy Plane To Freedom"


January 15, 1941: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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January 15, 1941: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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January 15, 1941: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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January 15, 1941: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.
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January 15, 1941: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C.
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January 15, 1941: Front page of the Syracuse Herald-Journal, Syracuse, New York.
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Note the headline report: "Germans Could Cross Atlantic If Britain Loses, Hull Warns"
(The Nazis could not even cross the English Channel to invade tiny little England let alone the whole of the Atlantic to invade the United States. I understand that at the time, government officials were trying to get the American people to understand how dire things were, but to make such absurd statements could not have helped.)


January 15, 1941: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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January 15, 1941: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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January 15, 1941: Front page of the San Mateo Times, San Mateo, California.
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January 15, 1941: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany.
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1. Flugzeugträger, Kreuzer, Zerstörer beschädigt.
(Aircraft carriers, cruisers and destroyers damaged.)
2. England gesteht Verluste im Mittelmeer.
(England admits losses in the Mediterranean.)


January 15, 1941: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP.
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1. Nach Ibn Saud König Faruk!
(After Ibn Saud King Faruk!)



   
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