The second heavy bombing attack launched by the enemy within three days against our installations and shipping at Oro Bay, about 15 miles south-east off Buna, occurred yesterday morning. ...
Article : 365 wordsHeavy casualties were inflicted on the Axis forces near Ksar Rhilane, 55 miles to the south-west of Medenine, a road junction to the extreme south-west of the Mareth Line positions and beyond the Mareth[?] Line proper. Many vehicles were left burnt out. ...
Article : 334 wordsThe blasting of a train off the rails in France, while it was travelling at high speed and laden with troops, resulting in ...
Article : 350 wordsThe Berlin High Command claimed that Kharkov had been penetrated from several sides and that violent street fighting was in progress. The Berlin radio added that German troops broke through from the west and ...
Article : 859 wordsThe Istanbul correspondent of the "Daily Express" states that a traveller, who has arrived from Tokyo, revealed ...
Article : 145 wordsAfter a two-hour debate, the Senate unanimously passed the Bill providing for an extension of the Lend-Lease Act for one ...
Article : 556 wordsThe Stockholm correspondent of Reuters states that, according to official figures published in Rome, the army has lost nearly 100,000 ...
Article : 156 wordsOn board a unit of the Pacific Fleet when it shelled Japanese bases on Vila and Munda islands, in the Solomons on March 6[?] Foster Halley ...
Article : 119 wordsThe Moscow radio announces that in an interview with the correspondent of the Russian news agency, Tass, who is with the Eighth Army, ...
Article : 164 wordsAn air battle near Guadalcanal between United States planes and 22 Japanese planes, in which four of the enemy planes were shot down ...
Article : 157 wordsDuring this afternoon, aircraft of the Fighter Command attacked locomotives and other objectives in Brittany. ...
Article : 96 wordsMerchant ships under the control of the Ministry for War Transport carried over 2,250,000 service-men and civilians last year. ...
Article : 154 wordsAn Admiralty communique announced that the submarine P311 (Commander R. D. Cayley) is overdue, and must be presumed lost. ...
Article : 205 wordsTwo churches were hit and several houses demolished when tip-and-run raiders in daylight attacked a south-east coast town. The raiders dropped ...
Article : 140 wordsIt was announced to-day that rationing of meat, butter, cheese, canned fish and edible oils will start on or Before April 1. ...
Article : 78 wordsDuring his speech in the House of Commons on the Air Force estimates, the Secretary for Air (Sir Archibald Sinclair) paid tribute to the ...
Article : 192 wordsAccording to the American United Press the Japanese have captured the important point of Hwayung in the drive southward across the Yangt[?]e ...
Article : 74 wordsThe Irish Republican Association planned to secure control of electrical sirens, thereby destroying the efficiency of the civil defence system ...
Article : 125 wordsAn Admiralty communique stated that light coastal forces, manned by personnel of the Fighting French Navy, made a successful attack on a ...
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Advertising : 19 wordsStuttgart had its 17th raid last night from R.A.F. bombers, 11 machines of which are missing. The Berlin radio stated that the ...
Article : 67 wordsBritish and German cross-Channel guns were in action for 75 minutes this morning and shells fell in the Dover area. ...
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The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), Sat 13 Mar 1943, Page 1
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