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February 16, 1942: Front page of the News and Chronicle, London, England. |
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February 16, 1942: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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February 16, 1942: Front page of The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Mercury, Leeds, England. |
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Note the report at bottom left: "Mr. Churchill's Points" |
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February 16, 1942: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales. |
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February 16, 1942: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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February 16, 1942: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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February 16, 1942: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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February 16, 1942: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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February 16, 1942: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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February 16, 1942: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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Note the report in column 1: "Army Sinks Sub Off East Coast" |
(The Army did not sink a U-boat. The first U-Boat sunk by U.S. forces was U-656, which was sunk on Mar. 1, 1942 by a Lockheed Hudson flown by Ens. William Tepuni, USNR of VP-82. This was off Newfoundland. A second, U-503, was sunk off Newfoundland by VP-82 on Mar. 15th. The first U-boat sunk off the U.S. east coast was U-85, which was sunk by USS Roper DD-147 on Apr. 14, 1942.) |
Also note the report in column 8: "Submarine Hits Aruba Refinery, Tank Vessels" |
(U-156 was the submarine responsible for this. The three ships hit were the 6,452-ton Arkansas, the 2,396-ton Oranjestad, which was sunk with the loss of 15 men and the 4,317-ton Pedernales, 8 men were lost in this ship. Arkansas and Pedernales were both repaired and returned to service.) |
Also note the report in column 8: "Believe Canadians Sink German Subs" |
(In the report they claim it is possible that they sank three U-boats. As it turns out, the Canadians had a false belief, no U-boats were sunk by a Canadian warship. In fact, only two U-boats were sunk in the month of Feb. 1942.) |
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February 16, 1942: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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February 16, 1942: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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Note the report in column 5: "Admiral Hart Was Killed, Japs Say" |
(Of course, the report was not true.) |
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February 16, 1942: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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February 16, 1942: Front page of the Tucson Daily Citizen, Tucson, Arizona. |
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February 16, 1942: Front page of the San Mateo Times, San Mateo, California. |
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Note the report in column 4: "Plane Honored for Sinking Nazi Diver" |
(The report claims that the submarine that sank the China Arrow, U-103, was sunk shortly thereafter the attack. Not only was U-103 not sunk by a U.S. aircraft, it was one of the submarine that survived until the end of the war.) |
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February 16, 1942: Front page of the Teltower Kreisblatt, Kreis Teltow, Brandenburg, Germany. |
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1. Singapur kapituliert bedingungslos. |
(Singapore surrenders unconditionally.) |
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February 16, 1942: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Singapur hat bedingungslos kapituliert - Japanische Fallschirm - und Marinetruppen auf Sumatra. |
(Singapore surrendered unconditionally - Japanese parachute and naval forces in Sumatra.) |
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Page published February 16, 2023 |
