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March 12, 1942: Front page of the News and Chronicle, London, England. |
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Note the report in columns 2-4: "Allied Planes Smash 8 Invasion Ships" |
(At best three Japanese merchant ships were sunk by U.S. Navy aircraft, another was sunk by a mine, however, a Japanese post-war assessment lists only two as being sunk.) |
Also note the report at top right: "Tirpitz, Attacked With Torpedoes By Planes, Fled In Smoke Screen" |
(The report was true, Tirpitz was attacked by torpedo aircraft, but no hits were obtained. Two of the aircraft, Fairey Albacores from HMS Victorious, failed to return.) |
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March 12, 1942: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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March 12, 1942: Front page of The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Mercury, Leeds, England. |
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Note the photo at top: "British Submarine's Grand Record" |
(Photo of crew of HM Submarine Utmost. The boat was lost sometime after leaving Malta on Nov. 17, 1942, it is still unclear what the cause of the loss was.) |
Also note the report in columns 2-3: "White Bread and Cakes to Disappear" |
Also note the report in columns 5-6: "Englishwoman's Disclosure Of Japanese Atrocities" |
Also note the report in column 6: "Viscount Kano Interned" |
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March 12, 1942: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales. |
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March 12, 1942: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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Note the report in column 2: "No Repetition of Struma Tragedy" |
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March 12, 1942: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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Note the report in columns 2-3: "Atrocities Arouse Bitterness - Hong Kong Horrors" |
Also note the report in column 7: "Beer Output To Be Cut By Third" |
Also note the report in column 4: "Jap. Pawnbroker Was Spy" |
(A pawnbroker in Honolulu convicted of spying for the Japanese.) |
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March 12, 1942: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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March 12, 1942: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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March 12, 1942: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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March 12, 1942: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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March 12, 1942: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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March 12, 1942: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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Note the report in column 5: "83 Crew Members Of 2 Sunken Ships Reach Puerto Rico" |
(The unnamed ships were; the 7,011-ton British tanker Melpomene and the 6,515-ton Swedish tanker Skane. Both were sunk by the Italian submarine Giuseppe Finzi.) |
Also note the report in column 3: "Navy Lists Freighter As Lost in Pacific" |
(The freighter Malama was sunk on Jan. 1, 1942 by a floatplane from the Japanese Armed Merchant Cruiser Aikoku Maru. All 38 men survived and were taken prisoner. Two died in Japanese custody.) |
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March 12, 1942: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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March 12, 1942: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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Note the report in column 3: "Will Be Secret - Names Of Ships Sunk Are Not To Be Disclosed" |
(Secretary of the Navy Col. Frank Knox, announced today that going forward the names of ships sunk will not be made public.) |
Also note the report in column 3: "Nazi Inventor Dies" |
(Robert A. Bosch dies at age 80 in Stuttgart, Germany.) |
Also note the report in columns 2-4: "Farmer's Fanciful Yarn About Being Only One Saved Off Ship Sailing From Port Arthur Lands Him In Jail" |
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March 12, 1942: Front page of the Tucson Daily Citizen, Tucson, Arizona. |
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March 12, 1942: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California. |
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March 12, 1942: Front page of the Teltower Kreisblatt, Kreis Teltow, Brandenburg, Germany. |
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1. Indiens Männer sollen erneut für England bluten - Cripps nach Indien unterwegs - Ein Betrungsmanöver Londons. |
(India's men are said to bleed again for England - Cripps on his way to India - a betrayal of London.) |
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March 12, 1942: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Würdeloser Kniefall der britischen Lords vor Juda - Hetzreden im Oberhaus gegen die Araber. |
(British lords kneel undignified before Jews - diatribes in the House of Lords against the Arabs.) |
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Page published March 12, 2023 |