USING massed tanks and infantry, the Germans are pounding at the Russian defences of Stalingrad, the big steel city of the Volga. Fast-moving panzers are spreading out west and east along the Caucasus Mountains. ...
Article : 804 wordsLONDON, August 20.—The big commando raid at Dieppe, on the north coast of France, is widely regarded as a dress rehearsal for a full-scale invasion. Reports of the leaders will go to the War ...
Article : 723 wordsSurvivors of H.M.A.S. Canberra lined the rail of the ship which brought them to an Australian port. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 39 wordsCaptain Frank Edmond Getting, R.A.N., Captain of the Canberra, who was mortally wounded in the Solomon Islands battle, which ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 55 wordsEIGHTY-FOUR of the crew of 816 were lost—74 missing, believed killed, 10 died of wounds—when the Australian cruiser Canberra was sunk in the Solomon Islands battle. One hundred and nine were wounded. ...
Article : 594 wordsTIMOR, where a small Australian-Dutch force is still offering organised resistance to the Japanese, has been ...
Article : 265 wordsHanging by his feet from a cannon rod when the belly furret of a Flying Fortress was shattered by Zero ...
Article : 150 wordsCAIRO, August 20.—Increasing air activity over the Western Desert was revealed in to-day's communique from ...
Article : 273 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday.—Additional indirect taxation aimed at curtailing still further luxury spending will be a feature of the ...
Article : 94 words"Brisbane's first air raid alarm was a very real one, and provided an excellent trial," the Civil Defence Minister (Mr. ...
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Advertising : 135 wordsNEW YORK, August 20.—Two American reports suggest that the surface raider operating in the South ...
Article : 294 wordsTHE Allied forces attacking the South-East Solomons have scored a clear-cut, unmistakeable initial victory, says the Courier-Mail correspondent at a South Pacific Port. ...
Article : 380 wordsLONDON, August 20.—Indian attacks on communications, obviously long prepared, were almost German in their subtlety ...
Article : 208 wordsNEW YORK, August 20.—Vice-Admiral Ghormley in charge of the Solomons fighting, thought out an attack on these islands ...
Article : 91 wordsNEW YORK, August 20.—Sinking of a Japanese cruiser or destroyer by an American submarine in the Western Aleutians ...
Article : 102 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday.—Regulations have been issued under the Navigation Act requiring additional fire-fighting appliances to ...
Article : 63 wordsNEW YORK, August 20.—The War Production Board has frozen all film in the hands of manufacturers. ...
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The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954), Fri 21 Aug 1942, Page 1
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