World War II Chronicle: September 12, 1941

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Pres. Roosevelt’s youngest son John is pictured on the front page, having graduated from the U.S. Navy Supply School. Page 4 mentions Elliot, the president’s second-oldest son, who has orders to report to Kelly Field (now part of Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas) for navigation training. Click here for more on the Roosevelt brothers… Page 2 reports that the Germans claim to have sunk 22 Allied ships. 65 merchant ships of Convoy SC 42 departed Nova Scotia on August 30 and were spotted by a German submarine near Greenland’s Cape Farewell on Sept. 9. The wolfpack closed in and have hammered the convoy over the past three nights. By the time the convoy reaches Liverpool, U-boats have sent 16 British- and Swedish-flagged vessels to the bottom in one of the hardest-hit convoys to date. Canadian and British escorts sink two German U-boats, U-507 and U-201 during in the battle. 279 sailors perish (not counting the 53 enemy submariners) and the Allies lose nearly 70,000 tons of materials… In the past three days the Kriegsmarine has commissioned three more U-boats… Sports section is on page 46

Evening star. (Washington, D.C.), 12 September 1941. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1941-09-12/ed-1/