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December 10, 1941: Front page of the News and Chronicle, London, England. |
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In other news: On this day I-70, became the first Japanese submarine sunk in World War II. It was sunk by aircraft from USS Enterprise CV-6. On the other side of the world, USS Sealion SS-195 became the first American submarine sunk in World War II. It was sunk at the Cavite Navy Yard in Manila, Philippines by Japanese aircraft. |
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December 10, 1941: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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December 10, 1941: Front page of The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Mercury, Leeds, England. |
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December 10, 1941: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales. |
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December 10, 1941: Front page of the Evening Telegraph and Post, Dundee, Scotland. |
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December 10, 1941: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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December 10, 1941: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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December 10, 1941: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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December 10, 1941: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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December 10, 1941: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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Note the report at top right: "Prince of Wales, Repulse Lost" |
Also note the report in columns 4-5: "Manitobans Lost Aboard Corvette" |
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December 10, 1941: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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December 10, 1941: Front page of The New York Times, New York, New York. |
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December 10, 1941: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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December 10, 1941: Front page of the Detroit Times, Detroit, Michigan. |
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Note the headline: "Japs Beaten In Philippines" |
(I am sure the editor had no idea that he was promoting fake news.) |
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December 10, 1941: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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December 10, 1941: Front page of the Kingsport Times, Kingsport, Tennessee. |
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Note the headline: U.S. Supreme In Pacific - FDR" |
(It was not yet known that the "supreme U.S." forces in Guam had surrendered on this day.) |
Also note the headline: "U.S. Defeats Jap Attack" |
(Two absurd headlines in one newspaper.) |
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December 10, 1941: Front page of the San Antonio Express, San Antonio, Texas. |
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Note the headline report: "Valley Blacked Out" |
(Just two days after the attack on Pearl Harbor Maj. Grover C. Goodrich, commander of Fort Brown, got the entire Texas valley to test a blackout and air raid warnings. Did he expect a Japanese or German attack from Mexico? It is interesting to think how fast the blackout test could be put into effect in 1941, but in the 21st Century we can't stop millions of people from invading the country from across the same border.) |
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December 10, 1941: Front page of The Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada. |
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December 10, 1941: Front page of the San Mateo Times, San Mateo, California. |
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Note the report in column 4: "Enemy Planes Again Over S.F.; S.M. Has Morning Blackout" |
(Lt. General John L. DeWitt tells San Francisco that "death and destruction are likely to come to this city at any moment." He was not pleased at the way people responded to the warnings, and he suggested that it might have been a good thing if Japanese planes had dropped a few bombs on San Francisco to jolt the city into a realization of the fact. In the Perth, Australia paper of Dec. 11th he is quoted as saying that San Francisco "was under imminent threat of attack.") |
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December 10, 1941: Front page of the Teltower Kreisblatt, Kreis Teltow, Brandenburg, Germany. |
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1. Japanische Truppen auf den Philippinen. |
(Japanese troops in the Philippines.) |
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December 10, 1941: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Systematische Operationen gegen die USA.-Stützpunkte im Pazifik. |
(Systematic operations against the U.S. Bases in the Pacific.) |
2. Japanischer Landangriff auf Singapur. |
(Japanese land attack on Singapore.) |
3. Ueber 200 nordamerikanische Handelsschiffe von den Japanern beschlagnahmt. |
(Over 200 North American merchant ships seized by the Japanese.) |
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Page published December 10, 2022 |
