ALLIED air blitz on Germany reached a new pitch of fury on Tuesday, when the first simultaneous attacks from Britain and Italy produced what is officially described as the heaviest daylight raid ...
Article : 656 wordsThese spectacular pictures, taken from a Coastal Command Liberator, show the end of a U-boat caught on the surface by a Liberator which had been protecting a North Atlantic convoy. Top picture shows depth charges falling alongside between the conning tower and the stern. Below: The doomed U-boat a few seconds before it sank, throwing its crew on the conning tower into the sea. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 131 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday. — Under the new coal legislation, employees instead of working for the bosses or ...
Article : 532 wordsAn American torpedo plane scores a direct hit on a Japanese light cruiser during a raid by a U.S. Navy task force on enemy bases in the Marshall Islands. In this action U.S. battleships and carrier-based planes sank two Japanese light cruisers, three cargo vessels, and a tanker. While Japanese shipping is pounded in the Pacific, German U-boats are having a torrid time in European waters as ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 171 wordsALLIED troops in the Italian beachhead are solidly standing their ground. They have thrown back two German local attacks and inflicted casualties, last night's Allied communique announces. ...
Article : 523 wordsAir reconnaissance over Rabaul on Sunday disclosed that there were then fewer planes and ships in the area than at any previous time ...
Article : 296 wordsLONDON, Feb. 23 (A.A.P.).—Following their capture of Krivoirog, big iron ore town in the Dnieper Bend, by assault yesterday Russian troops are pursuing the defeated Germans southwards ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 484 wordsNEW YORK, Feb. 23 (A.A.P.).—President Roosevelt emphatically concurred yesterday with Mr. Churchill's ...
Article : 370 wordsHow the Allied air forces are striking at Germany's industrial centres from Britain and southern Italy. Arrowheads point to ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 66 wordsNEW YORK, Feb. 23 (A.A.P.).—The Japanese have taken steps to prevent a repetition of the Truk attack, in which the ...
Article : 67 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday.—War operational commitments and provision of reinforcements to give men in New Guinea reasonable leave ...
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Advertising : 104 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday. — An explanation of why the letters A.M.F. were used on temporary headstones placed over soldiers' ...
Article : 336 wordsRestrictions have been placed on the buying by Australian and American servicemen of clothing intended for civilian use ...
Article : 124 wordsBURMA FRONT, Feb. 23.—Many of the Japanese who have been pressing against the Seventh Division now seem to have broken ...
Article : 137 wordsLONDON, Feb. 23 (Special).—Young German women are now being sent to coal mines to replace miners called to the army says ...
Article : 110 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday.-Details of war pensions granted by, the Repatriation Commission show that casualties during this ...
Article : 76 wordsLONDON, Feb. 23 (Special). — The War Minister (Sir James Grigg) has eliminated one of the anomalies connected with the issue ...
Article : 67 wordsLONDON, Feb. 23 (A.A.P.).—The Luftwaffe tried to set London alight again last night with a raid as heavy as that of Friday night. Fire bombs were dropped over ...
Article : 182 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday. — In spite of rigid control of distribution there were not sufficient rubber tyres in Australia to keep ...
Article : 123 wordsSANTIAGO, Feb. 23 (A.A.P.).—The Chilean Government has announced the arrest of 14 members of a spy ring organised by the ...
Article : 58 wordsProtest against the dumping of vegetables during a glut was made at a fortnightly meeting of the Queensland Trades and Labour ...
Article : 55 wordsLONDON, Feb. 23 (A.A.P.). — Artillery on the south coast opened fire against enemy shipping in the Straits of Dover between 4.27 a.m. ...
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The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954), Thu 24 Feb 1944, Page 1
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