World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Monday, September 22, 1941
Day 753

September 22, 1941: Front page of the News and Chronicle, London, England.
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September 22, 1941: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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September 22, 1941: Front page of The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Mercury, Leeds, England.
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September 22, 1941: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales.
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September 22, 1941: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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September 22, 1941: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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September 22, 1941: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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Note the report in column 7: "B.B.C. Demands Strong Accent"


September 22, 1941: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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September 22, 1941: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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Note the report in column 8: "Two Italian Liners Sunk"
(The two ships sunk were Neptunia and Oceania, and both were sunk by the British submarine HMS Upholder. For as many men the two ships had on board, only about 384 were killed. Over 5,000 were picked up by the escorting ships.)


September 22, 1941: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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September 22, 1941: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.
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September 22, 1941: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C.
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Note the report in columns 2-3: "Tiny Boats Slip Into Gibraltar And Sink 3 Ships, Italy Claims"
(In the body of the report the Germans claim to have sunk 16 merchant ships in an attack on two convoys. This time they were both telling the truth. The three ships attacked by the Italians were the Fionashell [sunk] Durham [damaged and repaired] and Denbydale [sunk, raised and used as hulk, scrapped in 1955.] The German attack was against convoy SC-42, the Wolfpack did in fact, sink 16 ships. There were other German attacks on convoy ON-14 and OG-74 in which ships were lost. In addition to that, several unescorted ships were sunk by the Germans.)
Also note the report in column 4: "Nye's Arrest Asked If Speech Indorses Lindbergh's Ideas"
[The report is concluded here.]


September 22, 1941: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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September 22, 1941: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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September 22, 1941: Front page of The Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada.
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Note the report in columns 1-2: "Hitler Could Use Subs Carrying Airplanes in Raids on U.S. Coasts"
(Rear Admiral Yates Stirling, Jr. makes several good points, that would come true, but the prediction that the Germans would use an aircraft launched from a U-Boat, never happened. The Japanese would use them on the west coast, but not in direct bombings of U.S. cities.)


September 22, 1941: Front page of the San Mateo Times, San Mateo, California.
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Note the headline report: "New American Ship Sunk Off Iceland!" and the report in column 5: Nazis Claim Thirteen Red Warships Sunk"
(The American [actually ex- Danish now Panamanian flagged] ship was the Pink Star, which was one of the 16 ships sunk from convoy SC-42. Pink Star was sunk by U-552, Kapitänleutnant Erich Topp, 12 crewmen were lost, 22 were picked up.)


September 22, 1941: Front page of the Teltower Kreisblatt, Kreis Teltow, Brandenburg, Germany.
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1. Bereits über 150 000 Gefangene östlich Kiew.
(Already over 150,000 prisoners east of Kiev.)


September 22, 1941: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP.
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1. Wiener Messe - ein Beweis unserer Selbstsicherheit.
(Viennese Fair - proof of our self-confidence.)



   
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