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June 10, 1941: Front page of the Nottingham Evening Post, Nottingham, England. |
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June 10, 1941: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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June 10, 1941: Front page of the Birmingham Gazette, Birmingham, England. |
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June 10, 1941: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales. |
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Note the report in column 5: "Cigarette Mystery Explained" |
(Trying to determine why there is a shortage of cigarettes.) |
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June 10, 1941: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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Note the report in column 7: "U.S. Attack on U-boat" |
(This event occurred on Apr. 11th, but it was a one-sided attack. USS Niblack DD-424, after picking-up the survivors of the Dutch steamship Saleier on Apr. 11th, which had been sunk by U-52 on the 10th, picked up a sound contact and dropped three depth charges against what they thought was a German U-boat. If there had been a U-boat, this would have been the first hostile action between the United States and Germany, but there was no U-boat. Even though U-52 had sunk the Saleier on the 10th, they immediately left the area. Kapitänleutnant Otto Salman, the commanding officer of U-52, makes no mention in his war diary of being attacked on that date. According to the German Navy High Command, no other U-boat was in the area, and no other U-boat reported an attack on this date. The U.S. Navy later concluded that the attack had been against a false target. The first confirmed action between the United States and Germany was not until Sept. 4, 1941 when USS Greer DD-145 was fired on by U-652. Both torpedoes missed, but Greer dropped depth charges against the U-boat. In a strange twist of fate, On Oct. 31, 1941, Niblack was one of the ships which rescued survivors from the USS Reuben James DD-245, which was the first U.S. Navy ship sunk by enemy action in World War II. It should be noted that the first U.S. owned ship sunk by direct enemy action was the SS Robin Moor, which was sunk on May 21, but was not reported until today. You can see the report in The Evening Star below.) |
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June 10, 1941: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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June 10, 1941: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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June 10, 1941: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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June 10, 1941: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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June 10, 1941: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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June 10, 1941: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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June 10, 1941: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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Note the report in column 7: "Torpedo Sent Down American Steamer, 11 Survivors Report" |
(A day after the sinking was first reported, the information that it was sunk by a torpedo has just been learned.) |
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June 10, 1941: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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June 10, 1941: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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June 10, 1941: Front page of The Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada. |
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June 10, 1941: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California. |
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June 10, 1941: Front page of the Briesetal-Bote, Kreis Niederbarnim, Brandenburg, Germany. |
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1. England ist maszig zuversichtlich. |
(England is massively confident.) |
2. Italiens erstes Kriegsjahr. |
(Italy's first year of the war.) |
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June 10, 1941: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Englands Rüstungsproduktion fällt in beängstigender Weise. |
(England's armaments production falls alarmingly.) |
2. Jud Belisha trägt eine Kriegshoffnung mehr zu Grabe. |
(Jew Belisha buries one more war hope.) |
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Page published June 10, 2022 |
