World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Tuesday, April 14, 1942
Day 957

April 14, 1942: Front page of the News and Chronicle, London, England.
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April 14, 1942: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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April 14, 1942: Front page of The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Mercury, Leeds, England.
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April 14, 1942: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales.
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April 14, 1942: Front page of the Evening Telegraph and Post, Dundee, Scotland.
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April 14, 1942: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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April 14, 1942: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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April 14, 1942: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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April 14, 1942: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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April 14, 1942: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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April 14, 1942: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.
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Note the report in column 4: "U.S. Subs Account For 215 Jap Ships, Seawolf's Saga Is Typical For Operations"
(The press seems to be making this claim, unofficially, from information received from the U.S. Navy. It was believed, or at least reported, that U.S. forces had sunk, possibly sunk or damaged 215 Japanese ships, and that U.S. submarines were credited with fully one quarter of all sinkings. [Although the headline clearly states that submarines account for all 215 ships.] From Dec. 7, 1941 through the month of April 1942 Japanese merchant ship losses, from all causes, including accidents, amounted to 67 vessels. The submarine mentioned in the report, USS Seawolf SS-197, was tragically sunk by U.S. Navy forces on Oct. 3, 1944, All 100 men on board were lost with the boat.)


April 14, 1942: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C.
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April 14, 1942: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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April 14, 1942: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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Note the headline "Local Men Are Rescued: and the report in column 5: "19 Lost As Ship Sinks Off Coast"
(The unnamed ship was the Gulfamerica, which was sunk by U-123 on Apr. 10, 1942. Eighteen other men were also lost in the ship.)


April 14, 1942: Front page of the Tucson Daily Citizen, Tucson, Arizona.
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April 14, 1942: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California.
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Note the report in columns 6-7: "Flying Fortress Hit Jap Carrier in Port of Rabaul"
(A post-war Japanese assessment does not support this statement.)


April 14, 1942: Front page of the Teltower Kreisblatt, Kreis Teltow, Brandenburg, Germany.
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1. In 4 Monaten 97 Kriegsschiffe verloren - 160 Handelsschiffe wurden im Pazifik versenkt.
(In 4 months 97 warships lost - 160 merchant ships sunk in the Pacific.)


April 14, 1942: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP.
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1. Der Mißerfolg in Indien ernüchtert die Plutokratien - Die gute alte Zeit geht zu Ende - Churchill und Roosevelt beklagen entgangenes Kanonenfutter.
(The failure in India sobered the plutocracies - the good old days are coming to an end - Churchill and Roosevelt complain about lost cannon fodder.)



   
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