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| October 19, 1941: Front page of The People, London, England. |
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Note the report in column 1: "Soviet Naval Victory - Cruiser and 2 Destroyers Sunk" |
(Claims by radio Moscow, once again, are a complete lie. No German cruisers or destroyers or any other type of German heavy ships had been sunk by the Soviets.) |
Also note the report in column 4 "10 Ships Sunk, Nazis Say" |
| (The snarky tone of this report makes one believe that the writer did not believe the Germans. Unlike the writer of the report from radio Moscow in column 1. This time the claims by the Germans were not just bluster. The claim was that U-Boats had sunk 10 merchant ships and 2 destroyers. The attack was against convoy SC-48, which took place between Oct. 15-18. In the attack, nine merchant ships and two destroyers were sunk, although, the second destroyer was not sunk until the 18th, which makes it unlikely that this ship, HMS Broadwater, was included in the total given by the Germans on this date. The second destroyer mentioned as sunk, was only damaged. This was USS Kearny DD-432, which the writer correctly speculates about in the report. The Germans did get the overall tonnage wrong, they claimed 60,000 had been lost, in fact they overestimated by 12,000 tons, which was not a bad guess on their part. The writer may believe the report is a lie, of course, since he was in the press, he must have been well aware of how many false, fake, inaccurate and just made-up reports are in the paper every day, so I suppose I can understand his cynicism.) |
Also note the report in column 7: "Bader Was Unlucky" |
(Wing-Commander Douglas Bader, the Legless Ace, now tells his wife he was not shot down, but collided with a German fighter.) |
Also note the report at bottom left: "We Will Never Surrender! -- Moscow" |
(One statement by the communist Russian that was true.)
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| October 19, 1941: Front page of the Sunday Pictorial, London, England. |
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| October 19, 1941: Front page of The Sunday Post, Glasgow, Scotland. |
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| October 19, 1941: Front page of The Sunday Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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| October 19, 1941: Front page of The Sunday Star, Washington, D.C. |
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Note the report in column 3: "Berlin Speculates On Kearny Link To Convoy Raid - Nazi Authorities Deny Having Any Reports of Attack on U.S. Ship" |
(It was true that the Naval High Command did not have any report from a U-Boat taking credit for the attack on an American destroyer, but they did have a report from U-568, which was the boat that attacked USS Kearny. This is what was written in the German Naval High Command war diary on Oct. 19, 1941: "U-568 sinks a destroyer at 0415 on 17.10. probably British." In the war diary of U-568, Kapitänleutnant Joachim Preuss describes the action in this way; 0416: Fired four torpedoes at destroyer, appears to be A or D class, one hit amidships, ship breaks in two, rapidly sinking. Preuss seems to have identified the destroyer as a British A or D class ship. He could have been lying, but this seems unlikely.) |
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| October 19, 1941: Front page of The Sunday Star-News, Wilmington, North Carolina. |
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Note the report in column 6: "Nazis Say No Subs Have Reported Kearny Attack" |
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| October 19, 1941: Front page of the Detroit Times, Detroit, Michigan. |
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Note the report in column 3: "Ford to Build Army Jeeps: |
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| October 19, 1941: Front page of The Kingsport Times, Kingsport, Tennessee. |
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| October 19, 1941: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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| October 19, 1941: Front page of The Telegraph-Herald, Dubuque, Iowa. |
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Note the report in column 5: "Capital Awaits Kearny Report" |
(In the section "Express Relief" this sentence appears; There was widespread relief in the capital over the announcement that "no casualties to personnel were indicated in dispatches received by the Navy Department." This was incorrect, eleven men had been killed in the attack. These were the first American casualties in a Navy ship that had been torpedoed by a German vessel.) |
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October 19, 1941: Front page of the Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada. |
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October 19, 1941: Front page of the Oakland Tribune, Oakland, California. |
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October 19, 1941: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Unsere U-Boote antworten Churchill. |
(Our submarines answer Churchill.) |
2. Neuer Sieg in der Atlantikschlacht. |
(New victory in the Battle of the Atlantic.) |
3. 10 Handelsschiffe mit 60.000 BRT. und 2 britische Zerstörer versenkt. |
| (10 merchant ships with 60,000 GRT. and 2 British destroyers sunk.) |
[The German version of the attack on Convoy SC-48.] |
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Page published October 19, 2022 |
