World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Tuesday, September 9, 1941
Day 740

September 9, 1941: Front page of the News and Chronicle, London, England.
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Note the report in column 1: "U-Boat Surrenders To R.A.F. Plane In Mid-Atlantic"
(U-570, on its first war patrol, was forced to the surface and surrendered. It was towed into port and commissioned into the Royal Navy as HMS Graph. Used by the RN for testing, it was wrecked Mar. 20, 1944 and abandoned.)


September 9, 1941: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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September 9, 1941: Front page of The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Mercury, Leeds, England.
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September 9, 1941: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales.
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September 9, 1941: Front page of the Evening Telegraph and Post, Dundee, Scotland.
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Note the report in column 3: "U.S. Ship Sunk - Red Sea Attack by Unknown Plane"
(Steel Seafarer was sunk by a German Ju-88 bomber, all of the thirty-six-man crew were rescued.)


September 9, 1941: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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September 9, 1941: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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September 9, 1941: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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September 9, 1941: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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September 9, 1941: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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September 9, 1941: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.
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September 9, 1941: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C.
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September 9, 1941: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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September 9, 1941: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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September 9, 1941: Front page of The Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada.
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September 9, 1941: Front page of the San Mateo Times, San Mateo, California.
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September 9, 1941: Front page of the Teltower Kreisblatt, Kreis Teltow, Brandenburg, Germany.
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1. Leningrad eingeschlossen.
(Leningrad completely encircled.)
2. Der Fall Greer.
(The Greer Case)


September 9, 1941: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP.
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1. Leningrad völlig eingeschlossen.
(Leningrad completely encircled.)
2. Erst schießen - dann fragen!
(Shoot first - then ask!)



   
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