World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Tuesday, October 21, 1941
Day 782

October 21, 1941: Front page of the News and Chronicle, London, England.
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October 21, 1941: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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October 21, 1941: Front page of The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Mercury, Leeds, England.
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October 21, 1941: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales.
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October 21, 1941: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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Note the report in column 4: "Norwegian Ship Torpedoed"
(The small passenger/cargo ship, which had been built in 1891, was sunk by the Russian submarine Shch-402.)


October 21, 1941: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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Note the report in column 6: "Aged Jews Herded Into Poland - Another Nazi Atrocity"
(The report states that 20,000 Jews from Berlin, Rhineland and Vienna have been deported to Poland. Sadly, few if any would survive the war.)
Also note the report in column4: "B.B.C. Ridicules Ghost Voice"


October 21, 1941: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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October 21, 1941: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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October 21, 1941: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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October 21, 1941: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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October 21, 1941: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.
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October 21, 1941: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C.
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Note the report in column 4: "Helen Keller's Dog, Gift From Japan, Back With Mistress"


October 21, 1941: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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Note the photo at bottom right: "U.S. Plane Carrier Hornet Is Commissioned"
(USS Hornet CV-8, commissioned on Oct. 20, 1941. America's newest aircraft carrier would launch the Doolittle Raid against Japan on Apr. 18, 1942, but sadly was sunk on Oct. 27, 1942, in the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands.)


October 21, 1941: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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(The newspaper has incorrectly labeled this as installment XI, but it is in fact IX.)


October 21, 1941: Front page of The Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada.
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October 21, 1941: Front page of the San Mateo Times, San Mateo, California.
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October 21, 1941: Front page of the Teltower Kreisblatt, Kreis Teltow, Brandenburg, Germany.
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1. Luftwaffe wieder an der Ostfront Einsatz.
(Luftwaffe again deployed on the Eastern Front.)


October 21, 1941: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP.
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1. Zerrüttung des Sowjetwiderstandes schreitet fort.
(Disintegration of the Soviet resistance progresses.)
2. Arbeiterbataillone als Kanonenfutter.
(Battalions of workers are cannon fodder.)



   
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