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December 19, 1941: Front page of the News and Chronicle, London, England. |
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December 19, 1941: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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December 19, 1941: Front page of The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Mercury, Leeds, England. |
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Note the report in column 4: "Vichy Retracts Charge Against Royal Navy" |
(The Vichy government withdraws the charge that a British submarine had sunk the Saint Denis. It was in fact, sunk by U-652 in error.) |
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December 19, 1941: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales. |
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December 19, 1941: Front page of the Evening Telegraph and Post, Dundee, Scotland. |
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Note the report in column 3: "Rumania Claims Soviet Submarine Sunk" |
(I can find no record that a Soviet submarine was sunk on or about this date. I do have a record of a 2686-ton Romanian freighter named Oituz being sunk by the Russian submarine Shch-211 on Dec. 17.) |
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December 19, 1941: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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December 19, 1941: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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December 19, 1941: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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December 19, 1941: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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December 19, 1941: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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Note the report in column 6: "Nazi Army Chief Fired From Post" |
(This time the report was true. Generalfeldmarschall Walther von Brauchitsch, Oberbefehlschaber des Heers [Commander-in-Chief of the German Army] was relieved of his command by Adolf Hitler on Dec. 19, 1941. He never returned to active service. He was dismissed so that Hitler could assume role of C-in-C of the Army. Brauchitsch was arrested post-war and died while awaiting trial.) |
Also note the photo at bottom: "Future Assured" |
(President Roosevelt offers the son of the late Capt. Colin P. Kely, Jr. an appointment to West Point.) |
| [See "First U.S. Hero Of World War II Killed After Blasting Jap Vessel" in The Port Arthur News of Dec. 12, 1941.] |
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December 19, 1941: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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December 19, 1941: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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December 19, 1941: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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Note the report in column 1: "Laura Ingalls Held As Paid German Agent" |
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Laura Ingalls, not to be confused with the author Laura Ingalls Wilder of Little House on the Prairie fame, was a famous aviatrix and Nazi agent operating with the Gestapo in the U.S.A. She infiltrated the America First Committee, of which Charles Lindbergh was a member, and gave several pro Nazi, anti-intervention speeches for the committee. She was convicted of failing to register as a paid foreign agent and served 20 months in prison. After being released she continued to spread pro Nazi propaganda being arrested again in in July of 1944 while trying to enter Mexico carrying seditious material. She was not prosecuted in this event. She died in 1967. |
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December 19, 1941: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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December 19, 1941: Front page of The Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada. |
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December 19, 1941: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California. |
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December 19, 1941: Front page of the Teltower Kreisblatt, Kreis Teltow, Brandenburg, Germany. |
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1. Japans Flotte Herr im Pazifik. |
(Japan's fleet is master in the Pacific.) |
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December 19, 1941: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Das Kaiserliche japanische Hauptquartier gibt bekannt: USA. -Pazifikflotte praktisch vernichtet. |
(Imperial Japanese Headquarters announces: U.S. Pacific Fleet virtually annihilated.) |
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Page published December 19, 2022 |