LONDON, June 17.—Endeavouring to bypass el Ad em and read the Libyan coast east of Tobruk, Axis armoured troops hurled themselves against the British positions at Sidi Rezegh yesterday but were repulsed. ...
Article : 1,336 wordsJAPANESE planes raided Darwin for the fourth day running on Tuesday, losing two. In four days they have lost 12 planes. Allied airmen have bombed Japanese bases in Timor and New Guinea, leaving hanggrs, workshops and dumps ablaze. ...
Article : 1,275 wordsCOMMANDO UNITS TRAINING HERE: American troops (left) and Australians (right) learn to make "Molotov cocktail" bombs for anti-tank warfare at a special Allied army school somewhere in Australia. The troops, who are being trained as commandos, are instructed in the methods ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 126 wordsAMERICAN B26 bombers, which have struck heavy blows against Japanese warships in the Aleutian Islands, are now being ...
Article : 142 wordsLONDON, June 17.—The German onslaught on Sebastppol continues as furiously as ever, and is being resisted just as stubbornly—but the German offensive north and south of Kharkov is ...
Article : 645 wordsNEW YORK, June 17.—The new British defence system, known as the "box defence," is proving a great ...
Article : 91 wordsLONDON, June 17.—British sources estimate that eight, or possibly nine, Italian warships were sunk or damaged in the ...
Article : 197 wordsLONDON, June 17.—Pumping cannon shells into a Nazi military headquarters in Paris was the defiant climax of one ...
Article : 224 wordsAUTHORITY to expend £1,675,000 on urgent defence works in Queensland in the immediate future had ...
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Advertising : 80 words"We face invasion and all the horrors that accompany it just as surely as the Russian people experience it to-day," said the ...
Article : 125 wordsNEW YORK, June 17.—The weekly newspaper, United States News, in a graph showing the naval losses both sides have ...
Article : 64 wordsNEW YORK, June 17.—In reply to a petition from 23,000 workers in a United States shipyard the Secretary for the Navy ...
Article : 54 wordsLONDON, June 17—Britain has resumed her aerial offensive against Germany's industrial districts after a lull of eight days. ...
Article : 127 wordsNEW YORK, June 17.—The aircraft carrier has displaced the battleship as the Navy's chief arm. This is indicated by the decision of the House of Representatives Naval Affairs Committee to suspend battleship construction and to rush the building of at least 30 ...
Article : 512 wordsNEW YORK, June 17—The Rio de Janeiro newspaper Colobo-declares that Spanish merchantmen are aiding Axis submarines ...
Article : 72 wordsNEW YORK, June 17.—The vital strategic importance of the Middle East, and the imperative urgency of buttressing the defences there ...
Article : 83 wordsLONDON, June 17.—The war is now costing Britain £10,000 sterling a minute, or £14,400,000 a day. This was, revealed by the Lord ...
Article : 88 wordsLONDON, June 17.—The Evening Standard diarist says that King Peter of Yugoslavia is unofficially engaged to Princess ...
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The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954), Thu 18 Jun 1942, Page 1
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