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April 11, 1942: Front page of the News and Chronicle, London, England. |
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Note the report in column 4: "Moscow Radio Tells How Franz Died" |
(Russian propaganda aimed at the German people.) |
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April 11, 1942: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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Note the report in columns 5-6: "American Torpedo Boats Sink Two Jap Warships" |
(The Japanese only lost one small auxiliary warship, Patrol Boat 23 [Nitto Maru,] which was sunk by USS Nashville CL-43 on Apr. 18 when it spotted the USS Hornet CV-8 Task Force en route to bomb Japan, and one submarine, Ro-30, sunk by USS Tautog SS-199 on Apr. 26th.) |
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April 11, 1942: Front page of The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Mercury, Leeds, England. |
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April 11, 1942: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales. |
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Note the report in column 5: "Six Days in Open Boat" |
(Richard Fairey, a passenger, and the son of aircraft manufacturer Charles Fairey, (Fairey Swordfish and so on,) gives his account of being in an open boat for six days. He had lost both legs to frostbite. The unnamed ship was the 4,765-ton Ringstad, which was sunk by U-333. They were picked up by USS Swanson DD-443 on Jan. 29.) |
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April 11, 1942: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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April 11, 1942: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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April 11, 1942: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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April 11, 1942: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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April 11, 1942: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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April 11, 1942: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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April 11, 1942: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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Note the report in column 3: "Flying Tigers Reinforced, Score Success" |
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April 11, 1942: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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Note the headline "U.S. Sub Lost in Western Pacific" and the report in column 4: "Perch's Normal Complement Was 50 Men" |
(USS Perch SS-176 was scuttled Mar. 3 after being attacked several times by the Japanese destroyers Natsugumo and Minegumo. All sixty men survived, but six men died as prisoners in Japanese custody.) |
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April 11, 1942: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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April 11, 1942: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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April 11, 1942: Front page of the Tucson Daily Citizen, Tucson, Arizona. |
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April 11, 1942: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California. |
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April 11, 1942: Front page of the Teltower Kreisblatt, Kreis Teltow, Brandenburg, Germany. |
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1. Europas Journalisten klagen die Kriegshetzer an. |
(Europe's journalists accuse the warmongers.) |
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April 11, 1942: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Ein Schlag für Roosevelt - ein Schlag für Churchill - 60.000 MANN USA.-Streitkräfte kapitulieren Britischer Flygzeugeträger und zwei Kreuzer versenkt - Neue japanische Erfolge im Pazifik und im Indischen Ozean. |
(A blow to Roosevelt - a blow to Churchill - 60,000 MEN USA forces surrender British aircraft carrier and two cruisers sunk - New Japanese successes in the Pacific and Indian Oceans.) |
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Page published April 11, 2023 |