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BEST 1941 headline display newspaper NAZI SUBMARINE torpedoes US Warship USS KEARNY shortly before the US entry into WW II - inv # 8T-421
SEE PHOTO----- COMPLETE, ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER, the Times-Star (Bridgeport, CT) dated Oct 17, 1941.
This newspaper contains a huge banner headline, photo, and "breaking news" report of a Nazi German submarine torpedoing a US warship, the USS Kearny, shortly before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the US entry into WW II.
This is a Great display newspaper just before the US entry into WW II.
USS Kearny, a Benson-Livermore-class destroyer, was a United States Navy warship during World War II. She was noted for being torpedoed by a German U-boat in October 1941, before the U.S. had entered the war. She survived that attack, and later served in North Africa and the Mediterranean. |
In October 1941, while the U.S. was still neutral in World War II, Kearny was docked at Reykjavík, in U.S.-occupied Iceland. A "wolfpack" of German U-boats attacked a nearby British convoy, and overwhelmed its Canadian escorts. Kearny and three other U.S. destroyers were summoned to assist.
Immediately on reaching the action, Kearny dropped depth charges on the U-boats, and continued to barrage throughout the night. (This action was specifically cited as a provocation in Hitler's declaration of war on the U.S. two months later.) At the beginning of the midwatch 17 October, a torpedo fired by U-568 struck Kearny on the starboard side. The crew confined flooding to the forward fire room, enabling the ship to get out of the danger zone with power from the aft engine and fire room. Regaining power in the forward engine room, Kearny steamed to Iceland at 10 knots , arriving 19 October. Kearny lost 11 men killed, and 22 others were injured. After temporary repairs Kearny got underway Christmas Day 1941, and moored six days later at Boston, Massachusetts, for permanent repairs.
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