World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Tuesday, March 31, 1942
Day 943

March 31, 1942: Front page of the News and Chronicle, London, England.
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March 31, 1942: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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March 31, 1942: Front page of The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Mercury, Leeds, England.
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Note the report in column 7: "Cruiser Lost H.M.S. Naiad"
(The Germans had announced the loss of a cruiser [unidentified] on March 13th, but the Admiralty had not officially acknowledged the loss until today. HMS Naiad was sunk by U-565 on Mar. 11, with the loss of 82 men.)


March 31, 1942: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales.
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March 31, 1942: Front page of the Evening Telegraph and Post, Dundee, Scotland.
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March 31, 1942: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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March 31, 1942: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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March 31, 1942: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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March 31, 1942: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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Note the photo "Back From Musso's Mare Nostrum"
(Photo of crew of HM Submarine Utmost. The boat was lost sometime after leaving Malta on Nov. 17, 1942, it is still unclear what the cause of the loss was.)


March 31, 1942: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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March 31, 1942: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.
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March 31, 1942: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C.
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Note the report at top right: "Allies Blast Subs and Destroyer In Beating Off Attack on Convoy"
(This report is about the attack on convoy PQ-13. The report claims that three German U-boats may have been sunk. None were. The Germans claim that two British warships, cruiser HMS Trinidad and the destroyer HMS Eclipse were damaged. Trinidad was damaged when one of her torpedoes ran a circle and hit her and Eclipse was damaged in a gun battle with German destroyers. Neither were sunk, however, Trinidad would be sunk on the return voyage. The German destroyer Z-26 was sunk by HM ships Trinidad, Fury and Eclipse.

The anti-submarine trawler Sulla FY-1874, being transferred to the Soviet Union, went missing on the night of Mar. 25/26 in a storm, it is assumed that the ship capsized and sank. Along with that, five merchant ships were also lost from the convoy. Three sunk by aircraft and two by U-boats.)


March 31, 1942: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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March 31, 1942: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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March 31, 1942: Front page of the Tucson Daily Citizen, Tucson, Arizona.
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March 31, 1942: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California.
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March 31, 1942: Front page of the Teltower Kreisblatt, Kreis Teltow, Brandenburg, Germany.
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1. Der Winter war Englands größte Enttäuschung.
(The winter was England's greatest disappointment.)


March 31, 1942: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP.
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1. Faule Versprechungen für die Nachkriegszeit - Cripps gibt Churchills Betrugsplan für Indien bekannt.
(Rotten promises for the post-war period - Cripps announces Churchill's fraud scheme for India.)



   
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