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April 15, 1942: Front page of the News and Chronicle, London, England. |
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April 15, 1942: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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April 15, 1942: Front page of The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Mercury, Leeds, England. |
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April 15, 1942: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales. |
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April 15, 1942: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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April 15, 1942: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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Note the report in column 1 Two U.S. Ships Lost In Pacific" |
(USAT Meigs, as reported, was sunk by Japanese aircraft during the raid on Darwin. USAT Liberty was sunk by I-66.) |
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April 15, 1942: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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April 15, 1942: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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April 15, 1942: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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April 15, 1942: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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April 15, 1942: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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April 15, 1942: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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Note the report in column 2: "Nazis Slaughtered 9,000 Near Mariupol, Reds Say" |
(This may be true, even though the source is the Russians.) |
Also note the report in column 7: "Loss of Normandie Laid to Careless By House Probers" |
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April 15, 1942: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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April 15, 1942: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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Note the photo at top right: "Port Arthur Skipper Is Here" |
(The three men in the photo were on the 9,264-ton tanker Oklahoma, which was sunk on Apr. 8 by U-123. The ship was later raised and repaired.)
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Also note the report in column 6: "Two Local Seamen Lost In Ship Sinking" |
| Also note the report in columns 5-7: "At Least 11 Seamen Lost When Two Merchant Ships Are Sunk" |
(Hamilton Gray was master of the 7,137-ton tanker Atlas, which was sunk on Apr. 9 by U-552, two men were lost with the ship. William Collegan was master of the 6,151-ton tanker Harry F. Sinclair Jr., which was severely damaged, but did not sink. The ship was towed to port and repaired, sadly, ten men were lost in the incident.) |
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April 15, 1942: Front page of the Tucson Daily Citizen, Tucson, Arizona. |
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April 15, 1942: Front page of the San Mateo Times, San Mateo, California. |
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April 15, 1942: Front page of the Teltower Kreisblatt, Kreis Teltow, Brandenburg, Germany. |
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1. Die USA. verloren ein Viertel ihrer Tankerflotte. |
(The USA. lost a quarter of their tanker fleet.) |
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April 15, 1942: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Im April bereits 350.000 BRT. feindlicher Schiffsraum vernichtet - In sechs Monaten gebaut - in zwei Wochen versenkt - Neue große Erfolge der deutschen U-Boote und Luftwaffe im Atlantik. |
(In April already 350,000 GRT. enemy shipping space destroyed - built in six months - sunk in two weeks - new great successes of the German U-boats and Luftwaffe in the Atlantic.) |
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Page published April 15, 2023 |
