JAPANESE forces in the Admiraltys lost 3000 dead and wounded in a desperate all-night counter-attack designed to drive the Americans from Momote airfield, on Los Negros Island. Official observers have described the engagement as one of the fiercest in the South-West Pacific theatre of war to date. ...
Article : 443 wordsTHE enemy bases of Ponape and Kusaie, east of Truk, in the eastern Carolines, have been attacked of the US 7th Air Force. ...
Article : 94 wordsTRANSFORMATION: These two pictures tell the story of the transformation of a Greek child, Tassa Thrifali, 11. One picture was taken in May, 1942, when he had wasted away from hunger. The other shows him after being built up by special treatment. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 42 wordsWHEN the Advisory War Council meets in Canberra on Tuesday morning, the Prime Minister (Mr Curtin) is expected to ...
Article : 114 wordsTHE Danish National Council of Liberation has issued, instructions from its underground headquarters in Denmark that when ...
Article : 76 wordsTHE Washington correspondent of the ABC says it is believed in Washington that the U. S. will soon follow Britain’s action in ...
Article : 34 words“IT is no good thinking that the whole Army, or even the greater proportion of it, can come home immediately Germany is ...
Article : 75 words“WHEN we turn on the heat we will turn the Japs right back,” said Major-General J. S. Lethbridge, head of the Inter-Services Mission to the South-West Pacific, in an interview in New Delhi. ...
Article : 124 wordsAN immediate award of a bar to the Distinguished Flying Cross, only three weeks after the original award, has been made ...
Article : 46 wordsTHE German Newsagency says that a spokesman for the Nazi Foreign Minister (Herr von Ribbentrop) told a Press conference ...
Article : 123 wordsRUSSIAN forces in the Dnieper Bend have punched another gap in the German defences covering the approaches to Kherson and Nikolayev. The Soviet High Command says the Red Army has forced a crossing of a river barrier, 20 miles south of Krivoirog. This strongly defended position has been holding up their drive towards the Black Sea ports. ...
Article : 330 wordsCONFIDENCE in a promise by the Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin) last March, that a returned soldiers’ preference Bill would be ...
Article : 73 wordsTHE official Turkish radio said yesterday that Bulgaria, Axis satellite, wanted to retire from the war, but was not ...
Article : 40 wordsFINLAND: Helsinki radio announced early this morning that the Secretary-General of the Finnish Social Democrat Party was ...
Article : 49 wordsThe French Resistance Movement has carried out reprisals aganist the Nazis in the Grenoble district, who refused to release hostages, says an AAP report. THE French action was announced by the Interior ...
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Guinea Gold (Papua New Guinea : 1942 - 1945), Mon 6 Mar 1944, Page 1
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