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December 13, 1941: Front page of the News and Chronicle, London, England. |
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December 13, 1941: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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Note the report in columns 4-5: "Four Jap Troopships Sunk Off Thailand" |
(The report states that Dutch submarines sank four Japanese troopships. I have not been able to confirm this, but my database shows three Japanese freighters sunk by Dutch submarines on Dec. 12. However, a post war Japanese assessment does not confirm these sinkings.) |
Also note the report in column 3: "Italian cruiser sunk" |
(In fact two Italian cruisers,
Albercio da Barbiano and Albertro di Giussano, were sunk by HM warships and a Dutch warship.) |
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December 13, 1941: Front page of The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Mercury, Leeds, England. |
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Note the report in column 6: "French Ship Sunk - British Submarine Blamed" |
(The Vichy government blames a British submarine for sinking Saint Denis, but it was the German U-652 that sank the ship in error. The report also states that there was "no trace of a vessel named St. Denis in Lloyd's Register." The ship was a Danish ship named Viola that was captured by the British and given to France before the German invasion. Renamed Saint Denis in 1940 when it was taken over by the Vichy French, it is listed in the 1940 edition of Lloyd's Register under its original name.) |
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December 13, 1941: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales. |
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Note the report at top right: "Italian Cruiser Torpedoed As Libya Push Quickens" |
(The report is false.) |
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December 13, 1941: Front page of the Evening Telegraph and Post, Dundee, Scotland. |
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December 13, 1941: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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Note the report at top left: "Second Battleship Hit By U.S. Bombers" |
(The report was very inaccurate. No second battleship had been hit by bombs, in fact no first battleship had been hit either. Reports from yesterday claim that the Japanese battleship Haruna had been sunk, but this was incorrect. The two ships mentioned that were sunk in the attack on Wake Island were destroyers. Hayate was damaged by USMC shore guns and beached, the ship was a total loss. The other destroyer, Kisaragi was sunk by USMC aircraft.) |
Also note the report in column 3: "4,2000,000 Nazi Casualties" |
(The report claims this figure comes from "official German sources" but this could not have been true. According to Wikipedia, German casualty figures for Operation Barbarossa from June 22, 1941 until Dec. 5, 1941 were: 186,542 killed 40,157 missing 655,179 wounded. Total: 881,878.) |
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December 13, 1941: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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Note the report in column 6: "He Sank Battleship" |
(The report claims that Capt. Colin Purdie Kelly, Jr. was the man who sank the Haruna, but he actually attacked the light cruiser Natori and the destroyer Harukaze, neither of which were sunk. A minesweeper, W-10 was damaged and grounded in the same attack. That ship was a total loss, but it likely that this ship was attacked by Lt. Schaetzel's aircraft.) |
[See a photo of Capt. Kelly in The Evening Gazette below.] |
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December 13, 1941: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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December 13, 1941: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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December 13, 1941: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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December 13, 1941: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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Note the report in column 2: "Tokyo Claims U.S. Battleship Arizona Sunk" |
(Since there had been no Japanese recon flights since the attack, the only source for this could have been a leak or Japanese spies on the island. The U.S. had not yet admitted to the extent of the damage done at Pearl Harbor.) |
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December 13, 1941: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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Note the headline report: "Guam Probably Taken By Japs, Navy Says" |
(Guam surrendered on Dec. 10th.) |
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December 13, 1941: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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December 13, 1941: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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December 13, 1941: Front page of The Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada. |
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December 13, 1941: Front page of the San Mateo Times, San Mateo, California. |
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December 13, 1941: Front page of the Teltower Kreisblatt, Kreis Teltow, Brandenburg, Germany. |
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Gemeinsame Kriegsführung und Zusammenarbeit. |
(Joint warfare and cooperation.) |
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Telegramme des Führers an den König von Italien, den Kaiser von Japan, den Duce, den Ministerpräsidenten Tojo. |
(Telegrams from the Führer to the King of Italy, the Emperor of Japan, the Duce, the Prime Minister Tojo.) |
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December 13, 1941: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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Gleichzeitig mit dem Kampf der Waffen: Weltkampf gegen die Lüge. |
(Simultaneously with the battle of arms: world struggle against lies.) |
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Page published December 13, 2022 |
