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February 12, 1942: Front page of the News and Chronicle, London, England. |
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February 12, 1942: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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February 12, 1942: Front page of The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Mercury, Leeds, England. |
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February 12, 1942: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales. |
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February 12, 1942: Front page of the Evening Telegraph and Post, Dundee, Scotland. |
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February 12, 1942: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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February 12, 1942: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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February 12, 1942: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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February 12, 1942: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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February 12, 1942: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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Note the photos of HMS Duke of York at top. |
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February 12, 1942: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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February 12, 1942: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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Note the report in column 8: "Laura Ingalls Says She Hoped To Expose Spies" |
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 12, 1942: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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February 12, 1942: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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Note the report in columns 6-7: "Gas Masks For Civilians Here Among Items Assured by U.S." |
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February 12, 1942: Front page of the Tucson Daily Citizen, Tucson, Arizona. |
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February 12, 1942: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California. |
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February 12, 1942: Front page of the Teltower Kreisblatt, Kreis Teltow, Brandenburg, Germany. |
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1. Eckpfeiler des britischen Weltreiches zertrümmert - Singapur in japanischem Besitz. |
(Cornerstone of British Empire shattered - Singapore now a possession of Japanese.) |
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February 12, 1942: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Stadt Singapur im Sturm genommen - Das Sonnerbanner Über der britischen Zwingburg Ostasiens. |
(City of Singapore taken by storm - The sun has set over the British stronghold of East Asia.) |
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Page published February 12, 2023 |
