World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Sunday March 29, 1942
Day 941

March 29, 1942: Front page of The People, London, England.
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March 29, 1942: Front page of the Sunday Pictorial, London, England.
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March 29, 1942: Front page of The Sunday Post, Glasgow, Scotland.
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March 29, 1942: Front page of The Sunday Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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Note the report in column
Also note the report in column


March 29, 1942: Front page of The Sunday Mail, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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March 29, 1942: Front page of The Sunday Star, Washington, D.C.
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Note the report in column 3: "Sailor Burns to Death To Save 22 Others on Torpedoed U.S. Ship"
(The unnamed ship was the 8,046-ton tanker Dixie Arrow, which was sunk by U-71.)


March 29, 1942: Front page of The Sunday Star-News, Wilmington, North Carolina.
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March 29, 1942: Front page of the Detroit Times, Detroit, Michigan.
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March 29, 1942: Front page of The Kingsport Times, Kingsport, Tennessee.
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March 29, 1942: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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March 29, 1942: Front page of The Montana Standard, Butte, Montana.
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March 29, 1942: Front page of the Oakland Tribune, Oakland, California.
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March 29, 1942: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP.
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1. Unglücksstern über Stalins zweiter Front.
(Unlucky star over Stalin's second front.)
2. Britisches Landungsmanöver in Frankreich kläglich gescheitert.
(British landing maneuvers in France failed miserably.)



   
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