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Aid to Defenders – 2-3
Air Raid Sentiments Sounded in Gallup Poll – 3
Wake and Midway Hold Out, U.S. Communiques Reveal – 4
Tokyo Tanks Roll in Malay Jungle – 4
Kowloon Seized, Japanese Report – 5
Tokyo’s Thai Bases Bombed by British – 6
War Speeds the Work on Bermuda Bases – 6
The International Situation – 6
Plans 4 Years’ Work in 3 for Medical Students – 6
Army, Navy Order Casualty List Ban – 7
Casualties in Hawaii – 7
U.S. Flier Praised as a Hero in Death – 8-9
U.S. Iceland Force Ready to ‘Pin Nazis’ Ears Back’ – 9
President Opens Red Cross Drive for Relief Fund of $50,000,000 – 9
Germans Smashed – 10-11
British Push West in Libyan Advance – 11-13
19-44 for Fighting – 13-14
Axis is Said to Use French Arms in Libya –
Philippines Delaying Foe (by Hanson W. Baldwin) – 15
Reich to Register Americans over 50 – 15
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on Fighting in Various Zones – 16-18
Tokyo Learns the Technique of Air-Raid Defense (photo) – 18
Japanese Radio Reports New York Bombed Twice - 18

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.etherington/month/thismonth/14.htm

December 14th, 1941

GERMANY: U-757 launched. (Dave Shirlaw)

SPAIN: U-434 refuelled from the German supply ship Bessel in Vigo. (Dave Shirlaw)

MEDITERRANEAN SEA: The Italian battleship Vittoria Veneto is damaged by a British submarine while escorting an Italian convoy to Benghazi, Libya. This with previous losses prompts the Italians to recall the convoy.

Cruiser Galatea is torpedoed by U-577 (OLtzS. Ottokar Paulshen, CO). She is hit by multiple torpedoes and sinks in three minutes, 30 miles West of Alexandria at 31 12N 29 15E. There are 470 casualties but 144 survivors are rescued by HMS Griffin and Hotspur. (Alex Gordon)(108)

MALAYA: The Japanese force advancing from Patani has reached Kroh.

CANADA: Minesweeper HMCS Port Hope launched Levis, Province of Quebec. (Dave Shirlaw)

U.S.A.: The USAAF 77th Bombardment Squadron (Medium) departs Gowen Field, Boise, Idaho destined for Alaska. (Jack McKillop)

ATLANTIC OCEAN:
U-108 sank SS Cassequel.

U-160 lost 7 men dead and one wounded in a fire at Danzig during the boat’s working up exercises.

Oblt. Hans-Jürgen Radke of U-657 was killed in a fire on the living quarters ship Black Prince. That fire killed 28 men. The boat was still going through trials at the time.

U-A met the Italian submarine Luigi Torelli in the mid-Atlantic and transferred 50 survivors from the German support ship Python and Atlantis. (Dave Shirlaw)

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Japanese Radio Reports New York Bombed Twice - 18

And the Lexington was sunk 5 times.