World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Thursday, March 26, 1942
Day 938

March 26, 1942: Front page of the News and Chronicle, London, England.
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March 26, 1942: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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March 26, 1942: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales.
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March 26, 1942: Front page of the Evening Telegraph and Post, Dundee, Scotland.
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March 26, 1942: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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March 26, 1942: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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March 26, 1942: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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March 26, 1942: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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March 26, 1942: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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March 26, 1942: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.
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Note the headline report: Many Killed, Hurt In Easton, Pa. Explosion"
(More than 30 people were killed in a premature dynamite explosion at Easton, Pennsylvania. Eighty-one years later, on Mar. 25, 2023 an explosion at the R. M. Palmer chocolate factory in West Reading, PA, just 55 miles, killed two with nine more missing. The synchronicity conundrum strikes again.)


March 26, 1942: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C.
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Note the report in column 8: "Vessel Rams And Sinks Sub In Caribbean"
(This time the report was true, sadly the submarine was not German, it was the French submarine Surcouf. The unnamed ship was the Thompson Lykes. The incident took place on Feb. 18th, but the loss of the boat had still not been announced.)


March 26, 1942: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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March 26, 1942: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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March 26, 1942: Front page of the Tucson Daily Citizen, Tucson, Arizona.
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March 26, 1942: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California.
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Note the report in column 5: "Ripper Is Charged With Fourth Murder"


March 26, 1942: Front page of the Teltower Kreisblatt, Kreis Teltow, Brandenburg, Germany.
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1. Englands indischer Stern ist im Verblassen - Cripps trifft eine außerordentlich gespannte Lage an.
(England's Indian star is fading - Cripps encounters an extraordinarily tense situation.)


March 26, 1942: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP.
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1. Gottesdienst im Zeichen von Hammer und Sichel - Stalins rote Mordfahne auf Englands Altären - Anglikanische Kirche liefert England dem Bolschewismus aus.
(Worship service under the sign of the hammer and sickle - Stalin's red murder flag on England's altars - Anglican Church delivers England to Bolshevism.)



   
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