World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Sunday March 22, 1942
Day 934

March 22, 1942: Front page of The People, London, England.
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March 22, 1942: Front page of the Sunday Pictorial, London, England.
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March 22, 1942: Front page of The Sunday Post, Glasgow, Scotland.
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Note the headline report: "Hitler's S.O.S. To Von Brauchitsch"
(The report was false. Generalfeldmarschall Walther von Brauchitsch, Oberbefehlschaber des Heers [Commander-in-Chief of the German Army] was relieved of his command by Adolf Hitler on Dec. 19, 1941. He never returned to active service. He was dismissed so that he [Hitler] could assume role of C-in-C of the Army. Brauchitsch was arrested post-war and died while awaiting trial.)


March 22, 1942: Front page of The Sunday Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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Note the headline report: "One Jap Cruiser Believed Sunk, Another Damaged At Rabaul"
(Up to this point in the war, no Japanese cruisers had been sunk. Mikuma was the first Japanese cruiser sunk which happened at the Battle of Midway on June 6, 1942.)


March 22, 1942: Front page of The Sunday Star, Washington, D.C.
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Note the report at top left: "Bomber Sinks Sub Off East Coast; 3 Ships Torpedoed; Gunboat Lost In Pacific; Japs Open Bataan Push"
(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. More than a month after this report.

The unnamed Honduran ship was the 1,698-ton freighter Ceiba. The other two unnamed ships were the 11,628-ton American tanker Australia and the 9,647-ton American tanker E. M. Clark, which is the last ship mentioned in the report. Ceiba and E. M. Clark were sunk by U-124 and Australia was sunk by U-332.)
 
Also note the report in Column 8: "U.S. Bans Sugar Sales for Week For Registration"
[The report is concluded here.]
Also note the report in columns 2-3: "178 Jap Ships Sunk or Hit By American and Australians"
(The claim is that since the outbreak of the war, 178 ships of all types have been sunk or damaged by American and Australian forces. The analysis was close. The number of Japanese ships sunk by all causes, including accidents, marine casualties, Dutch forces and any other cause were 76 sunk and 105 damaged. The figure for ships damaged is made using the widest possible interpretation of the Japanese post-war data that I have available to me. I have not had sufficient time to verify these figures, so you can consider them to be close to accurate, but not exact.)


March 22, 1942: Front page of The Sunday Star-News, Wilmington, North Carolina.
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Note the report in column 1: "Atlantic Dim-Out Ordered By U.S."


March 22, 1942: Front page of the Detroit Times, Detroit, Michigan.
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March 22, 1942: Front page of The Hammond Times, Hammond, Indiana.
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March 22, 1942: Front page of The Kingsport Times, Kingsport, Tennessee.
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March 22, 1942: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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March 22, 1942: Front page of The Helena Independent, Helena, Montana.
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March 22, 1942: Front page of The Ogden Standard Examiner, Ogden City, Utah.
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March 22, 1942: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP.
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1. Der Weltbrandstifter wagt von Verteidigung zu sprechen - Roosevelt bemäntelt seinen Raubkrieg mit Kreuzzugphrasen.
(The world arsonist dares to speak of defense - Roosevelt cloaks his predatory war with crusade phrases.)



   
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