World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Wednesday, September 10, 1941
Day 741

September 10, 1941: Front page of the News and Chronicle, London, England.
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September 10, 1941: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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September 10, 1941: Front page of The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Mercury, Leeds, England.
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September 10, 1941: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales.
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September 10, 1941: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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September 10, 1941: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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Note the report in column 3: "Submarine's Surrender"
(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 10, 1941: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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Note the report at top left: "U.S. Ship Is Torpedoed - 24 Die In New Outrage"
(It should be pointed out that the ship, SS Sessa, had been sunk on Aug. 17, over twenty days ago, so to claim that this was a "new outrage" was just propaganda. It should also be understood that the United States had transferred this ship [and others] to Panama, mostly in the hope that a German U-boat would torpedo it and cause just such an incident.)


September 10, 1941: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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Note the report in columns 4-5: "Nazi Destroyer, Armed Trawler, Supply Ship and Another Ship Sunk"
(The "destroyer" Bremse, was in reality a 1,400-ton minelayer, which the Germans admitted had been sunk days ago. No destroyers or heavy German ships were sunk in the entire month of Sept. 1941. I have no record of any German S-boats [called E-boats by the British] or any trawlers being sunk at this time.)


September 10, 1941: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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September 10, 1941: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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Note the report in column 3: "Bismarck's Plan To Bomb Montreal Denied in London"
(According to the Associated Press, a Mr. Robert Derming, identified in this report as an assistant state defense administrator, but in tomorrow's report as an assistant State Department administrator, who was "quoting British sources" claimed that the German battleship Bismarck, which carried two aircraft, intended to use those two little aircraft to single-handedly take the war to North America and bomb Quebec AND Montreal. He claimed that each of the aircraft carried 1,200 thermite bombs and after the destruction of the two Canadian cities, they planned to land in the United States. Fortunately for the Canadians, Bismarck, and its two Arado Ar-196 float planes, had been sunk on May 27, 1941, before the two cities could be devastated by the two 100 lb. bombs they each actually carried. A British naval source questioned about the veracity of the report said only that the report was "Somebody's imagination.")
Also note the report in column 4: "Nazis Declare Civil Siege For Oslo Area"


September 10, 1941: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.
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September 10, 1941: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C.
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September 10, 1941: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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September 10, 1941: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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September 10, 1941: Front page of The Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada.
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September 10, 1941: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California.
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September 10, 1941: Front page of the Teltower Kreisblatt, Kreis Teltow, Brandenburg, Germany.
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1. Deutsche Panzer auf dem Sowjet-Siegesallee.
(German tanks on the Soviet Avenue of Victory.)


September 10, 1941: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP.
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1. So wurde Leningrad umklammert.
(Thus Leningrad was clutched.)



   
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