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  3. U.S. MARINES REHEARSE FOR SOLOMONS OFFENSIVE

    This radio picture, received from America yesterday, is the first to illustrate how the Americans prepared for the Solomons offensive. It shows US Marines using a tractor to drag a big gun ashore from a landing barge during practice at a south-west Pacific base. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  4. LOSS OF HMAS CANBERRA

    When the 10,000-ton cruiser HMAS Canberra, flagship off the Royal Australian Navy, was sunk in action in the Battle off the Solomons, the greater part of the warship's complement ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  5. FIERCE BATTLES IN DON BEND

    German attempts to establish themselves on the west bank of the Don in the bend facing Stalingrad and to establish bridgeheads are being contested by the Russians in a series of ...

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  6. 600 SURVIVORS REACH PORT

    More than 600 survivors of HMAS Canberra arrived at an Australian port yesterday. ...

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  7. CHANGE IN PACIFIC

    With no further official communique on the progress of the fighting in the Solomons, American ...

    Article : 496 words
  8. DUAL PURPOSE OF ELABORATE DIEPPE RAID

    The operation at Dieppe yesterday, although the biggest and most elaborately prepared, was conceived wholly as a test raid and had two main purposes-to discover how powerful were the ...

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  9. AXIS RAIDER IN ATLANTIC

    U-boats and at least one Axis surface raider are still active in the South Atlantic, the loss of three merchantment being ...

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  10. "Pitch-Black Night"

    Gommissioned Gnr. H. Hardiman of Pacific Highway, Chatswood, said:—"The Canberra to me was like a home of many years. I ...

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  11. AIR RAID ALERT IN BRISBANE

    August 20.-Allied HQ announced today that Brisbane had a short air raid alert tins morning. There was no confusion and people went ...

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  12. Spitfires Shoot Down Daylight Haiders

    When Spttfires engaged enemy raiders over a south coust town yesterday two of the German planes and probably a third were ...

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  13. Brazilian Action

    A Rio de Janeiro report says that the Brazilian Government has ordered all Brazilian vessels in the coastal service to proceed to the ...

    Article : 185 words
  14. ENEMY WARSHIPS BOMBED

    August 20.—American Flying Fortresses of Gen. MacArthur's command yesterday attacked Japanese warships off the island of Faisi, in ...

    Article : 184 words
  15. Heroic Rescues

    Shipwright W. E. Robinson, 34, of Western Australia, said:—"We worked all night trying to extinguish the fires with buckets of sea ...

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  16. STOP PRESS

    Serious looting and anon by targe mobs has flared up again in the Madras Presidency. A [?] of 3,000 attacked the police ...

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  17. ANOTHER JAPANESE WARSHIP SUNK

    A Navy Department communique states:— "North Pacifie Area-A US submarine has reported the sinking ...

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  18. Beach Landing Tanks On Secret list

    Same details of the new British tank-landing craft are still secret. The vessels are similar but larger than troop-carrying barges. Ramps ...

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