There is real drama in the story of a long-range Beaufighter which [?]imped home 350 miles across the Arafura Sea last week ...
Article : 263 wordsA battalion of Highlanders has played an heroic part in driving back Japanese forces from Imphal, on the India side of the Burma border. Before contacting the enemy 35 miles north of Imphal, the Highlanders made a forced march of 70 miles in four days ...
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Article : 64 words"Once you get over there it's worse than a Pitt Street traffic jam," said an Australian fighter pilot describing the swarms of pla"es that cross the Channel to harass the Germans in France. "It was almost a pushover,'' ...
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Article : 172 wordsWith his Flying Fortress ablaze over the North Sea, the pilot, Lieutenant Roland Schellenberg, of New Bedford, Massachusetts, ...
Article : 98 wordsVice Admiral T. E. Wardle (retired) has died in England at the age of 67. He commanded the Australian Fleet in 1924-26. ...
Article : 26 wordsA huge area of the French invasion coast, extending from 30 to 50 miles inland, seems completely deserted, said a Typhoon ...
Article : 181 words"Printer's Ink" (New York) reports that a tree-cutting machine now used in Texas may help overcome the present manpower ...
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Article : 242 wordsAs the position in China becomes more serious daily, prices for food-stuffs in Chungking rise to even greater heights. A half-pound tin of Australian cheese now sells for £20. This homely example illustrates ...
Article : 220 wordsParachutes helped land a Liberator bomber after it had been damaged in the big daylight raid on Wiener-Neustadt, Austria, last ...
Article : 159 wordsA US public opinion survey had shown that 70 per cent of the people favoured 50 per cent extra pay for US combat soldiers. Mr. Samuel ...
Article : 50 wordsPERTH. Tuesday.—Hunting leprous natives, shooting 18-ft cattle thieving alligators, and fording streams with a barrage of noise ...
Article : 126 words"Vril Nederland." the Dutch newspaper published in London, has revealed the nature of the special "documents.'' contained in ...
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Army News (Darwin, NT : 1941 - 1946), Wed 17 May 1944, Page 3
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