Fake, But Accurate

What if today’s “global citizen” journalists had been reporting sixty years ago? In This is the Times that tries men’s souls, Jay Tea gives us a pretty good idea of what it might have been like if the cut and run crowd and today’s crop of traitorous journalists who leech their freedom from the very society they despise and seek to dismantle had been in charge during WWII. As commenter Joe Edmon put it, “Fake, but accurate.” Read it, and weep for what we’ve learned to tolerate in such a short time.

US SUFFERS MAJOR DEFEAT IN PACIFIC

Key Island Falls To Japan

June 14, 1942

(Honolulu) — In a series of stunning moves, the Japanese have scored two bold victories against the United States — and inflicted grave damage on the already-battered American fleet.

Anonymous sources within the Navy have confirmed reports that the Japanese have invaded and occupied two islands off the coast of Alaska and the strategically-critical atoll of Midway, about 1300 miles northwest of Honolulu.

The Japanese struck with complete surprise, the Japanese attacked US bases in the Aleutian Islands on June 3. They followed up by invading and occupying two of the islands, Attu and Kiska.

Then, on June 4, the main blow fell.

What were the real headlines in June and July of 1942? I couldn’t find the NY Times headlines, but a front page archive search revealed these, which were typical of the several dozen I looked at:
Times Herald, Tuesday, June 09, 1942 Olean, New York: “United States Expected To Take Offensive At Sea In Determined Effort To Turn Tide Of Pacific War”

Oakland Tribune, Wednesday, July 15, 1942 Oakland, California: “NAVY REVEALS OFFICIAL RESULTS OF BATTLE OF MIDWAY” with a subhead of “How Nippon Invasion Fleet Was Smashed”

Modesto Bee And News-Herald, Friday, June 12, 1942 Modesto, California: Article headlines include “Heroes of Epic Midway Battle,” “Key Bases in Pacific May Be Bolstered,” and my favorite, “Japanese Lost 15 Ships In Coral Sea” under which you find:

Plane Carrier
Lexington Is
Sunk By Blast
—————-
Fewer Than 200 Americans
Are Believed To Have
Perished
—————-
U. S. DESTROYER LOST
—————-
Twenty Nippon Warships
Are Reported To Have
Been Damaged

Notice the focus of that last? Lexington is sunk BUT fewer casualties than you might expect. the destroyer was lost BUT twenty enemy ships reportedly damaged. The exact opposite is the norm today. For every victory, there is a BUT in favor of the enemy.

But don’t question their patriotism.