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November 21, 1941: Front page of the News and Chronicle, London, England. |
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November 21, 1941: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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November 21, 1941: Front page of The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Mercury, Leeds, England. |
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Note the report in column 4: "Ark Royal U-Boat Believed Sunk" |
(It was true that H.M.S. Marigold, under the command of Lt. James Renwick, R.N.R., attacked and sank U-433, but this boat had nothing to do with the sinking of H.M.S. Ark Royal. Sadly, Marigold was sunk on Dec. 9, 1942 by Italian Aircraft.) |
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November 21, 1941: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales. |
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November 21, 1941: Front page of the Evening Telegraph and Post, Dundee, Scotland. |
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Note the report in column 3: "Germans Admit Loss of E-Boat" |
(The daily German communique claimed that their forces sank two British merchant ships, including a tanker of 9,000 tons. They also admit the loss of an S-Boat through a collision. [S-Boat stands for Schnellboot, but the British called them E-Boats for Enemy Boat.] I can find no record of a 9,000-ton tanker being sunk, but the 1,159-ton freighter Aruba was sunk by the German Schnellboot S-105 and the 2,462-ton freighter Waldinge was sunk by S-41. It was S-41 which was lost, but the exact cause is unclear. The British claim to have sunk the boat in an air attack and the Germans, in a post was assessment, attribute the loss to British aircraft. However, other sources indicate that S-41 was in collision with S-47 and had to be abandoned due to damage. It is possible that S-41 was attacked and sunk after the collision. Press reports mention the British claim that second S-Boat was also sunk. I can find no record of another S-Boat being sunk on this date.) |
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November 21, 1941: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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Note the report in column 8: "New Battleship at Capetown" |
(The press reporting the movements of Britain's newest battleship, H.M.S. Prince of Wales, to the world and therefore, to the enemy as well.) |
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November 21, 1941: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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November 21, 1941: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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November 21, 1941: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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Note the report in column 5: "Execute Twelve Poles After Sabotage Fire" |
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November 21, 1941: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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November 21, 1941: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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November 21, 1941: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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Note the report in column 2: "10,000,000 Russians Slain, Wounded or Taken, Nazis Say" |
(According to Wikipedia Russian casualties in Operation Barbarossa between June 22, 1941 until Dec. 5, 1941 were; 566,852 killed 235,339 died of non-combat causes. 1,336,147 sick or wounded in combat and non-combat. 2,335,482 missing or captured. Total killed, missing, and captured: 3,137,673.) |
Also note the report in column 4: "Hitler Attends Funeral For Col. Gen. Ernst Udet" |
(According to "competent quarters" the son of Russian Foreign Minister, Vyacheslav Molotov, was captured by the Nazis. I have not been able to determine if this was true or not.) |
Also note the report in column 5: "Toto's Cage Struck By Train; She Falls, Killing Pet Cat" |
(The latest tragedy at the Ringling Brothers Circus.) |
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November 21, 1941: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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November 21, 1941: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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November 21, 1941: Front page of The Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada. |
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November 21, 1941: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California. |
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Note the report in columns 1-2: "Duchess Prays as She Dies" |
(The first woman executed by the State of California, Ethel Leta Juanita Spinellie, A.K.A. the Duchess, was executed in the gas chamber.) |
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November 21, 1941: Front page of the Teltower Kreisblatt, Kreis Teltow, Brandenburg, Germany. |
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1. Vergebliches englisches Hoffen. |
(Vain English hope.) |
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November 21, 1941: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Ein Amerikaner stellt fest: Enderfolg gehört Deutschland - "Die deutsche Blockade ist wirksamer als die Englands" |
(An American states: Ultimate success belongs to Germany - "The German blockade is more effective than England's.") |
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Page published November 21, 2022 |
