FOR the first time since the invasion of Normandy began there were no reports yesterday of any progress along the Allied line. Instead, Supreme Headquarters and correspondents’ dispatches told of the mounting savagery of German counter-attacks and the arrival of fresh enemy reinforcements. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 439 wordsTHE US Navy Secretary (Mr. James V. Forrestal) disclosed in Washington yesterday that the US Naval task force which ...
Article : 56 wordsALLIED Supreme HQ announced yesterday that every one of the 128 bridges and ferries along the River Seine, ...
Article : 56 wordsALTHOUGH it was the busiest day in their lives, a number of Americans on D-Day remembered Joan Ellis, the young British ...
Article : 114 wordsA BRITISH brigadier commanding an assault brigade spent some hours in German hands before surprising his divisional ...
Article : 109 wordsINVASION troops are going to get a “kick” out of their beer. It will be stronger than Britain’s home supplies, and will be ...
Article : 63 wordsTHE London “Daily Telegraph’s” correspondent with the invasion forces, in a delayed dispatch dated June 12, says that hundreds ...
Article : 78 wordsHEADED by 1500 Fortresses and Liberators Allied Air Forces on Wednesday made what probably was heir greatest daylight offensive across the English channel since D-Day, flying 4000 sorties. ...
Article : 164 wordsWHILE patrolling in waters off the coast of France on. Wednesday night two Allied destroyers—British and ...
Article : 95 wordsGENERAL CHARLES DE GAULLE, head of the French Committee of National Liberation, on Wednesday set foot in France for the first time since June 13,1940 when he fled to London to escape Nazi forces. ...
Article : 152 wordsREPORTS in Washington indicate that the French Underground movement has at least cut communications between German ...
Article : 46 wordsTHE Germans are said to have tortured and murdered American can paratroopers in the early Normanday landings. ...
Article : 116 wordsWING-COMMANDER K. Hampshire, of Perth (WA) on Wednesday night shot down the 10th enemy plane destroyed since ...
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Guinea Gold (Papua New Guinea : 1942 - 1945), Fri 16 Jun 1944, Page 1
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