World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Monday, October 27, 1941
Day 788

October 27, 1941: Front page of the News and Chronicle, London, England.
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October 27, 1941: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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Note the report at top right: "Was Petain Hitler's Secret Weapon?"


October 27, 1941: Front page of The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Mercury, Leeds, England.
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Note the report in columns 4-5: "Half The Axis Supply Ships To Libya Sunk Or Damaged"
(I'm pretty sure this is incorrect, but enough of the traffic between Europe and North Africa was destroyed that it ultimately strangled Rommel's army and caused his retreat.)


October 27, 1941: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales.
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Note the report at top right: "French Stand Still As Protest Over Killings"


October 27, 1941: Front page of the Evening Telegraph and Post, Dundee, Scotland.
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Note the report in column 2: "Finns Claim Two Soviet Destroyers Sunk"
(I have no record of any Soviet destroyers sunk in October of 1941.)


October 27, 1941: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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October 27, 1941: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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October 27, 1941: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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October 27, 1941: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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October 27, 1941: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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October 27, 1941: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.
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October 27, 1941: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C.
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October 27, 1941: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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October 27, 1941: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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Note the report in column 4: "Warship Claimed Sunk"
(The Italians claim to have sunk a British cruiser, once again, this claim was not true.)
(The newspaper has incorrectly labeled this as installment XVI, but it is in fact XIV.)


October 27, 1941: Front page of The Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada.
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Note the report in column 7: "French Informers Tell Germans Who Killed Army Chief"
Also note the report in column 2: "Accused Commies On Trial Today"
(Trial of 28 communists accused of plotting to overthrow the USA.)


October 27, 1941: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California.
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Note the report in columns 4-5: "Disease Dooms the Fuehrer Says Man Who Saw Him"
(John Cudahy, former American ambassador to Belgium, tells the Senate foreign relations committee that Adolf Hitler "looked as if he had a malignant disease" the last time he saw him.)


October 27, 1941: Front page of the Teltower Kreisblatt, Kreis Teltow, Brandenburg, Germany.
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1. Sowjetische Rückzugstraßen bombardiert.
(Soviets bombed as they retreat.)
2. Jüdische Blutschuld findet ihre Sühne / Judas taten des Hasses.
(Jewish bloodguilt finds its atonement / Judas acts of hatred.)


October 27, 1941: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP.
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1. Großeinsatz der Luftwaffe an der ganzen Ostfront.
(Large-scale deployment of the Luftwaffe on the entire Eastern Front.)



   
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