World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Wednesday, February 11, 1942
Day 895

February 11, 1942: Front page of the News and Chronicle, London, England.
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February 11, 1942: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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Note the report in column 7: "Libya Tank Officer Wins V.C."
(Lt. Philip John Gardner, M.C. is awarded the Victoria Cross.)


February 11, 1942: Front page of The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Mercury, Leeds, England.
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February 11, 1942: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales.
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February 11, 1942: Front page of the Evening Telegraph and Post, Dundee, Scotland.
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February 11, 1942: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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February 11, 1942: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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February 11, 1942: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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February 11, 1942: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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February 11, 1942: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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February 11, 1942: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.
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February 11, 1942: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C.
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Note the report in column 3: "Nazis Impose Curfew On Jews In France"
Also note the report in column 7: "Ingalls Trial Witness Says She Gave $150 To Aviatrix for Nazis"
(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.)


February 11, 1942: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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February 11, 1942: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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February 11, 1942: Front page of the Tucson Daily Citizen, Tucson, Arizona.
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February 11, 1942: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California.
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February 11, 1942: Front page of the Teltower Kreisblatt, Kreis Teltow, Brandenburg, Germany.
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1. U-Boote versenkten im Atlantik acht Schiffe, eine Korvette mit 50 500 BRT.
(U-boats sank eight ships in the Atlantic, one corvette with 50,500 GRT.)
2. Churchills Endziel: Berlin zukünftiger Sitz der Bolschewisten-Regierung.
(Churchill's ultimate goal: Berlin, future seat of the Bolshevik government.)


February 11, 1942: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP.
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1. Was England in Moskau versprach Berlin-Stalins Regierungssitz - Cripps gibt offen die Verschacherung.
(What England promised in Moscow Berlin-Stalin's seat of government - Cripps is openly bartering.)
[This may refer to an address given by Sir Stafford Cripps on Feb. 9, 1942. It is important to remember that when Cripps speaks well of Russia, that he was a Marxist/socialist.]
2. Über 50.000 BRT. im Atlantik versenkt.
(Over 50,000 GRT sunk in the Atlantic.)



   
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