World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Wednesday, September 24, 1941
Day 755

September 24, 1941: Front page of the News and Chronicle, London, England.
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Note the report in column 6: "Operation In Drifting Lifeboat"
(The men were from the Norwegian ship Taranger, which was sunk by U-95 on May 1, 1941.)


September 24, 1941: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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Note the report in columns 6-7: "Anna Neagle in Hull: Plans Amy Johnson Film"
(The actress Anna Neagle who is going to portray Amy Johnson, CBE in an upcoming movie, seen together before Amy's death.)


September 24, 1941: Front page of The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Mercury, Leeds, England.
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Note the report in column 6: "Nazi Terror In Europe"
Also note the report in column 8: "Liner Reported Sunk 300 Miles Off the Irish Coast"
(This was true, the freighter ship Beaverdale was sunk by U-48, but this was not a recent attack. The ship was sunk on Apr. 1st.)


September 24, 1941: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales.
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Note the report in column 3: "Uncle Sam As Father Christmas"
Also note the report in column
Also note the report in column 2: "School Buys Bren Guns"
(Can you imagine this happening in today's world?)


September 24, 1941: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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September 24, 1941: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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Note the report in column 5: "Two Large 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 24, 1941: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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September 24, 1941: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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September 24, 1941: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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September 24, 1941: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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Note the photo at top left: "Reported Sunk Again"
(The Russian battleship Marat, reported by the Nazis to have been left in a sinking condition. The report was not true.)


September 24, 1941: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.
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September 24, 1941: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C.
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September 24, 1941: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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September 24, 1941: Front page of The Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada.
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Note the report in column 6: "Mob Fired On - Troops Kill 8 Before Camacho's House"
(Munitions workers, protesting conditions in factories, marched on President Manuel Avila Camacho's home. When they were ordered to disperse, they refused so the commander of the guard ordered his troops to open fire on the crowd killing eight people.)


September 24, 1941: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California.
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Note the report in columns 1-2: "6 Pct. Limit on Profits Favored by Morgenthau"
(Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Morgenthau, Jr., living up to the democrat mantra, never let a crisis go to waste, long before Rahm Emanuel, Obama's Chief of Staff, told the world how the democrats operate, doing what democrats always do, grabbing other people's money. When asked by fellow democrat Clyde Williams of Missouri "Does that mean that everything over and above a 6 per cent return should go to the government?" Morgenthau responded with a resounding, "yes." Anyone living today, who thought that confiscation of money from companies was something new, this proves that the democrat party has been using this strategy for over eighty years.)


September 24, 1941: Front page of the Teltower Kreisblatt, Kreis Teltow, Brandenburg, Germany.
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1. Größte Vernichtungsschlacht im Kessel östlich Kiew.
(Greatest battle of annihilation in the pocket east of Kiev.)


September 24, 1941: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP.
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1. Bisher 380.000 Gefangene eingebracht.
(380,000 prisoners taken so far.)
2. 50 Sowjetdivisionen in der Kiew-Schlacht vernichtet.
(50 Soviet divisions destroyed in the battle of Kiev.)



   
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