World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Friday March 28, 1941
Day 575

March 28, 1941: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England.
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March 28, 1941: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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March 28, 1941: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales.
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March 28, 1941: Front page of the Evening Telegraph and Post, Dundee, Scotland.
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March 28, 1941: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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March 28, 1941: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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March 28, 1941: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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Note the report in column 4: "Another Ship Mined Off N.S.W. Coast"
(The trawler Millimumul was sunk by a mine laid by the German hilfskreuzer (auxiliary cruiser) Pinguin.)


March 28, 1941: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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March 28, 1941: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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March 28, 1941: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.
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Note the report in column 5: "28,859 Civilians Killed in Raids On Britain"
(The report states that the ratio of civilian to military deaths is about 50 to 1.)


March 28, 1941: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C.
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March 28, 1941: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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Note installment number 5 of "Both Sides of the War" a multi-part series by United Press reporters Joe Alex Morris and Lyle C. Wilson.


March 28, 1941: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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March 28, 1941: Front page of The Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada.
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March 28, 1941: Front page of the San Mateo Times, San Mateo, California.
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March 28, 1941: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany.
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1. Unerhörte deutschfeindliche Kundgebungen in Belgrad.
(Outrageous anti-German rallies in Belgrade.)
2. Der jugoslawische Staatsstreich.
(The Yugoslav coup d'etat.)


March 28, 1941: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP.
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1. Matsuoka beim Führer.
(Matsuoka with the Führer.)



   
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