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December 3, 1941: Front page of the News and Chronicle, London, England. |
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December 3, 1941: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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Note the report in columns 2-3: "German Survivor's Account of Sydney's Sinking" |
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The one detail left out of this report, is the name of the ship which picked up the survivors. It was the troopship HMS Aquitania.) |
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December 3, 1941: Front page of The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Mercury, Leeds, England. |
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December 3, 1941: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales. |
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December 3, 1941: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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Note the report in columns 5-6: "Big British Battleships At Singapore" |
(The announcement that Force Z, which included HM battleships Prince of Wales and Repulse, have arrived in Singapore. Information the Japanese probably already knew, but it would not have hurt to keep this a secret.) |
| [More about HMS Repulse here.] |
Also note the report in column 6: "Plot in Italy - Attempt On Duce's Life" |
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December 3, 1941: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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December 3, 1941: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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December 3, 1941: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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December 3, 1941: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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December 3, 1941: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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December 3, 1941: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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December 3, 1941: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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December 3, 1941: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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December 3, 1941: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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December 3, 1941: Front page of The Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada. |
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December 3, 1941: Front page of the San Mateo Times, San Mateo, California. |
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December 3, 1941: Front page of the Teltower Kreisblatt, Kreis Teltow, Brandenburg, Germany. |
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1. Tief in das Moskauer Verteidigungssystem eingebrochen. |
(Broke deep into Moscow's defense system.) |
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December 3, 1941: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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| 1. Im November schwerwiegende Verluste der britischen Seemacht. |
| (In November, British naval power suffers serious losses.) |
| 2. Tiefer Einbruch in das Moakauer Verteidigungssystem. |
| (Deep penetration of Moscow's defense system.) |
| 3. In Nordafrika bis jetzt: 814 Panzerfahrzeuge und 127 Flugzeuge vernichtet - 9000 Gefangene. |
| (In North Africa so far: 814 armored vehicles and 127 aircraft destroyed - 9000 prisoners.) |
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Page published December 3, 2022 |
