World War II As It Happened A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation Monday February 10, 1941 Day 529

February 10, 1941: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England.

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Note the headline report: "R.A.F. Torpedo German Destroyer Off Norway"

(I can find no evidence that this was true.)

February 10, 1941: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.

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February 10, 1941: Front page of the Birmingham Gazette, Birmingham, England.

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February 10, 1941: Front page of the Evening Telegraph and Post, Dundee, Scotland.

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February 10, 1941: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.

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Note the report in column 6: "Wants Lindbergh Reduced in Rank, Deported"

February 10, 1941: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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February 10, 1941: Front page of The News, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.

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February 10, 1941: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.

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February 10, 1941: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

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Note the report in columns 6-7: "We'll Finish The Job Churchill Tells U.S."

[Full text of Churchill's speech can be found here.]

(Click here for part 3 of 4 in the series in by Wallace R. Deuel responding to some of the many questions sent to him after his series "Where Hitler Stands" was published in January. That series ran from Jan. 10 to 22.)

[The complete "Where Hitler Stands series is available in the MaritimeQuest Library.]

February 10, 1941: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.

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February 10, 1941: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C.

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Note the photo and report in column 4: "British Ship Loaded With Iron Capsizes Off Delaware Shore"

[The report is concluded here.]

(The ship, Ramon de Larringa, was salvaged and later renamed Empire Mersey. Under that name U-618 sent her to the bottom of the sea on Oct. 14, 1942.)

February 10, 1941: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.

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February 10, 1941: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.

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February 10, 1941: Front page of The Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada.

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February 10, 1941: Front page of the San Mateo Times, San Mateo, California.

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February 10, 1941: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany.

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1. Schwere Unruhen in Kanada.

(Major civil unrest in Canada.)

2. Flugzeugvorstöße bis über Island.

(Air raids over Iceland.)

February 10, 1941: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP.

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1. Auch die Pause arbeitet für Deutschlands Endsieg.

(The break also works for Germany's final victory.)

2. Rudolf Heß bei der Amtseinführung der schlesischen Gauleiter in Breslau und Kattowitz.

(Rudolf Hess at the inauguration of the Silesian Gauleiters in Breslau and Katowice.)

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