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March 11, 1942: Front page of the News and Chronicle, London, England. |
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March 11, 1942: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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March 11, 1942: Front page of The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Mercury, Leeds, England. |
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March 11, 1942: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales. |
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March 11, 1942: Front page of the Evening Telegraph and Post, Dundee, Scotland. |
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Note the report in column 5: "Japs Claim U.S. Cruiser Sunk" |
(The report was mostly true, the cruiser sunk was USS Houston CA-30, not USS Marblehead CL-12. Almost 700 men were lost with the ship.) |
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March 11, 1942: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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March 11, 1942: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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March 11, 1942: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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March 11, 1942: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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March 11, 1942: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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Note the report in column 7-8: "Torpedo Planes Chase Tirpitz Back To Port" |
(The report was mostly true, Tirpitz was attacked by torpedo aircraft from HMS Victorious, but no hits were obtained. Two of the aircraft, Fairey Albacores, failed to return.) |
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March 11, 1942: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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March 11, 1942: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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Note the report in column 1: "Nine Jap Ships Sunk or Damaged By Aussie Planes Off New Guinea" |
(The real number sunk was zero, I have no figures for any damaged ships.) |
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March 11, 1942: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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March 11, 1942: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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Note the report in columns 4-5: "Axis Sub Reported Sunk By U.S. Navy" |
(The assessment by the navy was incorrect, purposefully or not.
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.) |
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March 11, 1942: Front page of the Tucson Daily Citizen, Tucson, Arizona. |
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March 11, 1942: Front page of the San Mateo Times, San Mateo, California. |
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March 11, 1942: Front page of the Teltower Kreisblatt, Kreis Teltow, Brandenburg, Germany. |
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1. Der Machtkampf hinter den Kulissen in London Wer soll wem helfen? - Das ist Churchills Kriegsbilanz. |
(The power struggle behind the scenes in London Who should help whom? - This is Churchill's war record.) |
2. Der Aufstand in Burma hat begonnen. |
(The uprising in Burma has begun.) |
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March 11, 1942: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Javas Fall enthüllt den Zahlenschwindel der USA. - Van Mook muß bestätigen: Nicht die mindeste Hilfe. |
(Java's case exposes U.S. numbers fraud - Van Mook has to confirm: Not the slightest help.) |
2. 27.000 BRT, an der Westküste Afrikas versenkt. |
(27,000 GRT, sunk off the west coast of Africa.) |
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Page published March 11, 2023 |