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March 20, 1942: Front page of the News and Chronicle, London, England. |
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March 20, 1942: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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March 20, 1942: Front page of The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Mercury, Leeds, England. |
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March 20, 1942: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales. |
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March 20, 1942: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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March 20, 1942: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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Note the photo at top: "Pilots vs. Ships" |
(The caption states that "In January an American submarine sent to the bottom a 17,000-ton Japanese liner of the crack Yawata Maru class." The January report was wrong and this report is wrong.) |
| Also note the report at top left: "Invasion Fleet Battered In New Guinea Waters" |
| (Once again the headlines proclaiming Allied successes are completely false. Since Mar. 13 only two Japanese cargo ships (transports) had been sunk, one by a submarine one probably by a Dutch aircraft. A third ship was possibly sunk, but Japanese records on this are unclear. The only Japanese warship sunk in March of 1942 was the small minesweeper W-2, which was sunk on Mar. 1 for unknown reasons. In a post-war assessment the Japanese do not list any ships damaged by Allied causes in the same time period. Keep these figures in mind while reading the headlines below.) |
Also note the report in columns 7-8: "Germans Expect Hitler to Launch Gas Offensive" |
(It is possible that this report, which does not cite a source, was written on the strength of a report from a few days ago. Neither were true, the Germans did not use poison gas in combat in World War II.) |
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March 20, 1942: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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March 20, 1942: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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March 20, 1942: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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March 20, 1942: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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March 20, 1942: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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March 20, 1942: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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March 20, 1942: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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Note the report in column 6: "Nazi Girl Spy Is Sentenced" |
Also note the report in columns 3-5: "Traffic Violators May Lose Gas Ration Cards" |
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March 20, 1942: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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March 20, 1942: Front page of the Tucson Daily Citizen, Tucson, Arizona. |
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March 20, 1942: Front page of The Southern Jewish Weekly, Jacksonville, Florida. |
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Note the report in column 5: "240,000 Jews Are Executed By Gestapo In Ukraine" |
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March 20, 1942: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California. |
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March 20, 1942: Front page of the Teltower Kreisblatt, Kreis Teltow, Brandenburg, Germany. |
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1. Geheimabmachungen über die arabischen Länder |
(Secret agreements about the Arab countries.) |
2. Kriegsmaterial für die Burmafront wurde versenkt. |
(War material for the Burma front was sunk.) |
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March 20, 1942: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Alarmruf des USA.-Admirals Stirling - Unterseeboote - Gefahr Nr. 1 - Schiffsverluste übertreffen die Neubaumöglichkeiten. |
(U.S. alarm call - Admiral Stirling - U-Boats - Danger No. 1 - Ship Losses cutpace new construction.) |
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Page published March 20, 2023 |