World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Saturday, March 28, 1942
Day 940

March 28, 1942: Front page of the News and Chronicle, London, England.
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March 28, 1942: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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March 28, 1942: Front page of The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Mercury, Leeds, England.
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March 28, 1942: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales.
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March 28, 1942: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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March 28, 1942: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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Note the report in column 7: "Rammed Nazi Submarine"
(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. Note that in this version of the story, the suspected U-boat had fired a torpedo at the freighter and the ship deliberately rammed the submarine. Of course, this was complete tommyrot. I wonder if the "Navy officials" who put this piece of propaganda out into the public domain had any remorse when they learned that it was Surcouf that was sunk?)


March 28, 1942: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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March 28, 1942: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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March 28, 1942: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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Note the headline report: " U.S. Navy Bags Six Jap Warships"
(The sub-headline of the report in column 4 states: "One Carrier, 5 Destroyers To Bottom"
Only the first paragraph in that column has anything to do with the headline, and the headline is a complete lie. In the whole month of March of 1942 only one Japanese warship, a minesweeper, was sunk, and it was sunk by a mine. In the paragraph it also states that U.S. submarines had sunk 30 transports in the last "two or three weeks." Since March 1, U.S. submarines had sunk 11 merchant ships, another 8 had been sunk by other Allied forces and one was lost to a Japanese mine.)


March 28, 1942: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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March 28, 1942: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.
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Note the report in column 2: "Lindbergh Starts Working for Ford"


March 28, 1942: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C.
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March 28, 1942: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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March 28, 1942: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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March 28, 1942: Front page of the Tucson Daily Citizen, Tucson, Arizona.
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March 28, 1942: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California.
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March 28, 1942: Front page of the Teltower Kreisblatt, Kreis Teltow, Brandenburg, Germany.
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1. Ein offener Brief Subhas Boses an Herrn Cripps - Indiens Ketten werden fallen - Die Sklaverei ist bald vorbei.
(An open letter from Subhas Bose to Mr. Cripps - India's chains will fall - Slavery will soon be over.)


March 28, 1942: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP.
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1. Ein Lump soll für den anderen bürgen - Roosevelt in Churchills Indienkomplott - Hinter den Kulissen des englischen Betrugsmanövers.
(A scoundrel should vouch for the other - Roosevelt in Churchill's India plot - Behind the scenes of the English fraud maneuver.)



   
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