World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Saturday March 22, 1941
Day 569

March 22, 1941: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England. the Nottingham Evening Post, Nottingham, England.
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Note the report at bottom center: "689 Killed On The Roads"
Also note the report in column 2: "Private James Stewart"
(Jimmy Stewart now in the U.S. Army.)


March 22, 1941: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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March 22, 1941: Front page of the Birmingham Gazette, Birmingham, England.
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March 22, 1941: Front page of the Evening Telegraph and Post, Dundee, Scotland.
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March 22, 1941: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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Note the report in columns 7-8: "Lindbergh Joins Dismal Anti-War Chorus"


March 22, 1941: Front page of the Daily Telegraph, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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March 22, 1941: Front page of The News, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
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March 22, 1941: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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March 22, 1941: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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March 22, 1941: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.
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Note the headline report: "Nazi Battleships Sink 22 Ships In NOrth Atlantic"
(This was the work of Admiral Günther Lütjens and the battleships Gneisenau and Scharnhorst.)


March 22, 1941: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C.
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March 22, 1941: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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March 22, 1941: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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March 22, 1941: Front page of The Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada.
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March 22, 1941: Front page of the San Mateo Times, San Mateo, California.
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March 22, 1941: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany.
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1. Neue riesige Versenkungserfolge - Insgesamt 224 000 BRT!
(Huge new sinking successes - A total of 224,000 GRT!)


March 22, 1941: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP.
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1. Wir schlagen England an allen Fronten.
(We beat England on all fronts.)
2. Schwerer Angriff auf den zweitgrößten britischen Kriegshafen.
(Large attack on the second largest British naval port.)



   
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