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September 14, 1941: Front page of The People, London, England. |
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Note the report in column 7: "Secret U-Boat Base At Dakar" |
(I have no knowledge of a U-Boat base at Dakar, Senegal.) |
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September 14, 1941: Front page of the Sunday Pictorial, London, England. |
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September 14, 1941: Front page of The Sunday Post, Glasgow, Scotland. |
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Note the headline report: "Greatest Convoy Story Of The War |
(The attack was against convoy HG-53, which suffered eight ships sunk and one captured. (3 sunk by U-37, 5 sunk by Fw-200's of 2./KG40 and 1 captured by Admiral Hipper.) This was not an attack on a current convoy, this attack occurred back in February.) |
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September 14, 1941: Front page of The Sunday Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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Note the headline report: "German Raider In The Pacific Shells Nauru And Society Is." |
(I can find no evidence that this ever happened. There were at least two "raiders" Hilfskreuzer operating in the Pacific at this time, Komet and Atlantis, but neither shelled the island.) |
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September 14, 1941: Front page of The Sunday Star, Washington, D.C. |
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Note the report in column 3: "Norse Mail Ship Sunk By British, Nazis Say" |
(Why the Germans claimed this ship to have been sunk is not clear. They added "only a few of the crew were rescued" which may have been the point of the report. The Germans attempting to create friction between the Norwegians and the British. The truth was, the ship was attacked, but not by the Royal Air Force or the Fleet Air Arm, but by a Russian submarine, K-2. He attacked with his deck gun, but the ship outran him and got away.) |
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September 14, 1941: Front page of The Sunday Star-News, Wilmington, North Carolina. |
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September 14, 1941: Front page of the Detroit Times, Detroit, Michigan. |
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September 14, 1941: Front page of The Kingsport Times, Kingsport, Tennessee. |
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September 14, 1941: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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September 14, 1941: Front page of the Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada. |
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Note the report in column 2: "Lindbergh Scored For Racial Theme" |
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September 14, 1941: Front page of the Oakland Tribune, Oakland, California. |
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September 14, 1941: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Der Griff um Englands Kehle - In der letzten Woche 292.000 BRT. versenkt - Stolze Erfolge von Kriegsmarine und Luftwaffe. |
(The grip on England's throat - 292,000 GRT in the last week. sunk -
Proud successes of the Navy and Air Force.) |
[Actual British loses for the previous week, Sept. 7 to 13, was 72,690 GRT.] |
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Page published September 14, 2022 |