U .S. NOW AT WAR WITH GERMANY AND ITALY; JAPANESE CHECKED IN ALL LAND FIGHTING (12/12/41)

Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 12/12/41 | Frank L. Kluckhohn, C.P. Trussell, H. Ford Wilkins, Charles Hurd, Craig Thompson, Joseph M. Levy

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• "As regards the Jewish question, the Führer has decided to sweep the floor clean. He prophesied to the Jews that if they ever caused a world war again, they would suffer extermination. this was not just mere phrasemaking. The world war is upon us; the extermination of the Jews is the necessary consequence. this question should be regarded without any sentimentality. We are here not to sympathize with the Jews but to sympathize with our German people. With the German people having once more scarified 160,000 dead in the campaign in the East, the original agents of the bloody conflict must pay with their lives." - Joseph Goebbels, diary entry.

• Planes from 24 Squadron finish arriving at Vanakanau airdrome near Rabaul. This force consists of 4 Lockheed Hudsons and 10 CA-1 Wirraways which were actually copies of the North American AT-6 training aircraft.

• Prime Minister Winston Churchill embarks on the battleship Duke of York for the United States.

• The War Cabinet in Australia cables Washington that they expect that it is likely that the garrison on New Britain will be defeated and occupied by the Japanese.