AMERICAN forces have made their deepest thrust to date into Japan’s outer ring of island defences in the Pacific, by attacking enemy bases in the Mariana (or Virgin) Islands, 600 miles north-west of Truk and 1300 miles south of Tokio. ...
Article : 448 wordsTOKIO radio “explained” yesterday why Japan’s grand fleet had side-stepped battle. Said the announcer: “Our great ...
Article : 73 wordsGLADE IT’S OVER: These Italian war prisoners, still held in British camps, are obviously not upset about their lot. By his head-scratching attitude, one of them seems to have been a Laurel and Hardy fan. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 36 wordsUNDER continuous assault by Allied warships and aircraft, Japanese barge traffic—one of the enemy’s main channels of supply in the New Guinea area—has been thoroughly disrupted. Of more than 1000 barges which have been destroyed since the beginning of the campaign, 242 have been accounted for in the past three weeks. ...
Article : 298 wordsITALY: An Algiers communique, broadcast early this morning, said that there had been sharp encounters at several points of the ...
Article : 62 wordsARMED with rifles and 400 rounds of ammunition, three schoolboys defied a platoon of 36 US Marines for two days and a night in ...
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Guinea Gold (Papua New Guinea : 1942 - 1945), Fri 25 Feb 1944, Page 1
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