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April 16, 1942: Front page of the News and Chronicle, London, England. |
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Note the report in column 2: "Trawler Sunk" |
(HM Trawler Notts County FY-250 was sunk by U-701 on Mar. 1, 1942. Forty-one men were lost in the ship. There was only one survivor, Officer's Steward John Francis Baxter.) |
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April 16, 1942: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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April 16, 1942: Front page of The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Mercury, Leeds, England. |
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April 16, 1942: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales. |
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April 16, 1942: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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April 16, 1942: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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April 16, 1942: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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April 16, 1942: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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April 16, 1942: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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April 16, 1942: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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April 16, 1942: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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April 16, 1942: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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Note the report in column 5: "Sub Sinks U.S. Ship After Periscope Is Shot Off" |
(The unnamed ship was the Catahoula, which was sunk on Apr. 5 by U-154.) |
Also note the report in column 5: "Two More U.S. Vessels Torpedoed in Atlantic" |
(The first unnamed ship was the 3,516-ton freighter Malchace, which was sunk on Apr. 9 by U-160. Fireman Earl Chamness, Jr. was the only casualty.) |
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April 16, 1942: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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April 16, 1942: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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April 16, 1942: Front page of the Tucson Daily Citizen, Tucson, Arizona. |
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Note the report in column 2: "First Sugar Ration To Be One Pound Per Person In Two Weeks" |
(To make clear this clumsy headline, the ration of sugar will be half a pound per person, per week.) |
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April 16, 1942: Front page of the San Mateo Times, San Mateo, California. |
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April 16, 1942: Front page of the Teltower Kreisblatt, Kreis Teltow, Brandenburg, Germany. |
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1. Plutokratenangst vor kommenden Schlägen - Stalins Winteroffensive war vergeblich - Die sowjetische Angriffstätigkeit läßt nach. |
(Plutocrats afraid of coming blows - Stalin's winter offensive was in vain - Soviet offensive activity subsides.) |
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April 16, 1942: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Wachsende Unruhe in den USA. wegen des Kriegsverlaufes - Roosevelt sprecht vom Krieg des Überlebens. |
(Growing unrest in the US. because of the course of the war - Roosevelt speaks of the war of survival.) |
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Page published April 16, 2023 |