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February 9, 1942: Front page of the News and Chronicle, London, England. |
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Note the report in column 7: "Destroyer Lost" |
(The Admiralty announcing the loss of HMS Matabele. The ship was an escort for convoy PQ-8 and was sunk by U-454 on Jan. 17. Of the 200 people on board, only 2 survived.) |
Also note the report in columns 2-3: "Soap is Rationed: How to Use the Coupons" |
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February 9, 1942: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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February 9, 1942: Front page of The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Mercury, Leeds, England. |
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Note the report in column 6: "Fritz Todt Killed" |
(Dr. Fritz Todt, Reich Minister of Armaments, killed in a plane crash. He was replaced with Albert Speer, one of the top Nazis that escaped the hangman in 1946.) |
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February 9, 1942: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales. |
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February 9, 1942: Front page of the Evening Telegraph and Post, Dundee, Scotland. |
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February 9, 1942: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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Note the report in columns 4-5: "Dutch Sink Jap. Cruiser" |
(Up to this point in the war, no Japanese cruisers had been sunk. Mikuma was the first Japanese cruiser sunk which happened at the Battle of Midway on June 6, 1942.) |
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February 9, 1942: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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February 9, 1942: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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February 9, 1942: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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February 9, 1942: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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February 9, 1942: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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February 9, 1942: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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Note the report in column 7: "Laura Ingalls Sought To Pave Hitler's Way In U.S., Jury Told" |
(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 arrested in Dec. 1941 for 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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February 9, 1942: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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February 9, 1942: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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Note the report at bottom left: "Passenger In Private Plane Wounded When Troops Fire On Ship As It NEars Illinois Defense Plant" |
(An anti-aircraft battery in mid-America, opens fire on a small plane.) |
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February 9, 1942: Front page of the Tucson Daily Citizen, Tucson, Arizona. |
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February 9, 1942: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California. |
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February 9, 1942: Front page of the Teltower Kreisblatt, Kreis Teltow, Brandenburg, Germany. |
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1. Reichsminister Dr. Todt tödlich verunglückt. |
(Reich Minister Dr. Todt in a fatal accident.) |
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February 9, 1942: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Deutschland verlor Dr. Todt. |
(Germany lost Dr. Todt.) |
2. In 6 Tagen 239 Sowjetflugzeuge vernichtet. |
(239 Soviet aircraft destroyed in six days.) |
Note the photo of the Dutch cruiser De Ruyter at bottom right. |
Der niederländische Kreuzer de Ruyter, der bei Java versenkt wirde. Der Kreuzer lief 1935 von Stapel und war 6476 Tonnen groß. |
(The Dutch cruiser de Ruyter sunk off Java. The cruiser was launched in 1935 and weighed 6476 tons.) |
[This was not true, but it turned out to be an omen. HNLMS De Ruyter was sunk by the Japanese cruiser Haguro on Feb. 27, 1942.] |
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Page published February 9, 2023 |