World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Wednesday February 26, 1941
Day 545

February 26, 1941: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England.
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Note the report at bottom: "Italian Troopship is Torpedoed"
(The report claims that a troopship named Sardinia, registered in Florence, was torpedoed and sunk. The information comes from officers who were among a number of Alpini captured in a small action. I have no record of such an attack)


February 26, 1941: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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February 26, 1941: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales.
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Note the report in column 3: "Hitler's Big U-Boat Bluff"
(At least one reporter was calling Hitler out on his blustering.)


February 26, 1941: Front page of the Evening Telegraph and Post, Dundee, Scotland.
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February 26, 1941: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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February 26, 1941: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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February 26, 1941: Front page of The News, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
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February 26, 1941: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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February 26, 1941: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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Note the report in columns 3-4: "Netherlands Strike Riots Bring Drastic Nazi Action"
(The Nazi cracking down on Dutch citizens who are protesting the occupation of their country by the Germans. Some of the drastic measures being imposed by the Nazis, have recently been used by Justin Trudeau and the Canadian government against the trucker protest. The report also states that the Nazis will target about 50,000 Jews, who are always the root of the problem in Nazi eyes, for segregation into a ghetto.)
 


February 26, 1941: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.
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February 26, 1941: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C.
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February 26, 1941: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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February 26, 1941: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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February 26, 1941: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California.
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February 26, 1941: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany.
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1. Schnellboot versenkt Zerstörer - Gute U-Boot Beute.
(Schnellboot sinks a destroyer - Good U-boat booty.]
[The report was true, the Schnellboot S-30 sank the destroyer escort HMS Exmoor on Feb. 25.]
2. Neue Erfolge der deutschen Kriegsmarine.
(New successes of the German Navy.)
[This was also true. At this time the battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau were rampaging across the North Atlantic, the cruiser Admiral Scheer was also on a very successful war cruise. Couple that with the successful submarine and aircraft attacks and this what the Germans called the "Happy Time."]


February 26, 1941: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP.
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1. London hat verstanden!
(London has understood!)



   
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