Ceylon, in facing its first assault from the air, gave a splendid account of its preparedness, when 75 Japanese planes raided Colombo, and 57 of them were destroyed or damaged. These included 25 shot down for certain by the R.A.F. in dog-fights over ...
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Article : 225 wordsFull details of the invasion at Rabaul in January, and the heavy air attacks that preceded the landing of troops, were issued from Canberra yesterday. The small Australian garrison withdrew from the area after offering stiff resistance and inflicting heavy casualties on ...
Article : 530 wordsOne-third of Mandalay, the temporary capital of Burma, has been razed to the ground by a severe Japanese raid on the city, ...
Article : 248 words[?]nother medium-sized American [?]r has been reported torpedoed [?] sunk off the Atlantic coast, ac[?]ding to Sunday's U.S. Navy ...
Article : 221 wordsTwo members of the R.A.A.F.—a pilot and an L.A.C.—were killed when their training plane crashed at Benalla, Victoria. The cause of the ...
Article : 30 wordsLEARNING A LESSON from the Malayan campaign, all small boats in the coastal areas have been rounded up, to guard against their use by the enemy, in the event of an invasion. The small craft in this picture were collected on a New South Wales river. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 46 wordsSix more German planes were destroyed and seven others damaged in another severe raid on the Island, which lasted from the afternoon well ...
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Army News (Darwin, NT : 1941 - 1946), Tue 7 Apr 1942, Page 1
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