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March 29, 1941: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England. |
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Note the report at top left: "41-43s Register Next Week For War Work" |
Also note the report at top right: "Antonescu Is Said To Have Resigned" |
(A French news agency claims that Ion Antonescu stepped down. He did not and he remained as dictator of Romania until Aug. 23, 1944, when he was deposed and arrested. He was executed for war crimes on June 1, 1946.) |
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March 29, 1941: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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March 29, 1941: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales. |
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March 29, 1941: Front page of the Evening Telegraph and Post, Dundee, Scotland. |
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March 29, 1941: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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Note the report in columns 5-6: "Trawler Sunk By Mine In Net Off N.S.W." |
(The trawler Millimumul was sunk by a mine laid by the German Hilfskreuzer (auxiliary cruiser) Pinguin.) |
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March 29, 1941: Front page of the Daily Telegraph, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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March 29, 1941: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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March 29, 1941: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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Note the report in column 2: "Finn Freighter Is Torpedoed Off Faroe Islands" |
(The ship was sunk in shallow water by German aircraft, one crewman was killed. Sadly, eight survivors were killed in SS Venezuela when that ship was sunk by U-123 on Apr. 17, 1941. Carolina Thordén was raised and declared a total loss, it was towed to Scapa Flow and sunk as a blockship. It was raised and scrapped after the war.) |
Also note the report in column 5: "Big B-24 Bomber Off For Montreal; 40 To Be Crated" |
(The first of a group of B-24 Liberators being sent to the United Kingdom by the U.S.A. There is no mention in the report if anyone suggested not sending the bombers to England because it might cause Hitler to escalate the war.) |
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March 29, 1941: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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March 29, 1941: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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March 29, 1941: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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(Note the headline report: "Fleet Battle in Mediterranean; 3 Italian Ships Reported Hit; Yugoslavs Bar Danube to Germans" |
(The fleet action was the Battle of Cape Matapan, in which the Italians lost 3 cruisers and 2 destroyers with other ships damaged.) |
Also note the report in column 6: "Three Axis Vessels Leave Brazil to Breach Blockade" |
(The German ship Dresden made it past the blockade and survived the war. The Italian tanker Franco Martelli was sunk by the British submarine HMS Urge on Apr. 18, 1941 and the tanker Frisco slipped past the British and survived until Aug. 25, 1944 when it was scuttled at Bordeaux and later scrapped.) |
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March 29, 1941: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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Note installment number 6 of "Both Sides of the War" a multi-part series by United Press reporters Joe Alex Morris and Lyle C. Wilson. |
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March 29, 1941: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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March 29, 1941: Front page of The Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada. |
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March 29, 1941: Front page of the San Mateo Times, San Mateo, California. |
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March 29, 1941: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. Bombenvolltreffer auf Truppentransporter im Atlantik. |
(Troop transport hit by bombs in the Atlantic) |
2. Rom rüstet sich für den Matsuoka-Besuch. |
(Rome prepares for the Matsuoka visit.) |
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March 29, 1941: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Neue Erfolge der Totalblockade. |
(New success in the total blockade.) |
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Page published March 29, 2022 |
