WASHINGTON, Wednesday.—Miss Marguerite Lehand, President Roosevelt's personal secretary for more than 20 years, has died, in, Massachusetts. Miss Lehand was known to the President and friends as "Missy." President Roosevelt said that "her memory will ever be held in ...
Article : 122 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.—News from Normandy continues to tell of steady, solid advances by the Allied forces. The Americans, under General Bradley, have thrust forward some 12 miles south-west of Avranches, and advance tank spearheads are threatening to break through into Brittany. Only 25 miles off is the useful port ...
Article : 476 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.—To a crowded House of Commons to-day, Mr Churchill gave his long-awaited address on the progress of the war. ...
Article : 290 wordsANKARA, Wednesday.—Turkey has broken off all diplomatic and economic relations with Germany. ...
Article : 89 wordsSTOCKHOLM, Wednesday.—The President of Finland, M. Ryti, has resigned. It is stated that Field Marshal Baron Mannerheim will take ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 130 wordsMELBOURNE, Wednesday.—A pictorial record of the successful campaign of the Australian 7th and 9th Divisions in New Guinea since ...
Article : 114 wordsMOSCOW, Wednesday.—Thirty German divisions—about 500,000 men—are trapped by the Red Army's crashing drive at the northern end of their thousand-mile front. By their latest brilliant drive, the Russians have literally dividend Latvia into two. Kovno, the Lithuanian capital, has ...
Article : 252 wordsWASHINGTON, Wednesday.—The death is announced at the age of 61 of Senor Manuel Quezon, former President of the Philippine ...
Article : 52 wordsMELBOURNE, Wednesday.—British forces in Burma, Italy and the Middle East will receive clothing and equipment sent to India from ...
Article : 87 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.—Top-scoring RAF ace, Wing-Commander J. D. Braham, DSO arid two bars, DFC and three bars, and his Australian ...
Article : 99 wordsLONDON, Wednesday—First official reports reaching London and Washington from inside Germany, disclose that the Nazis appear to have definitely crushed the factions which made the recent bomb attempt on. Hitler's life and attempted to capture the Reich Communications Headquarters. ...
Article : 225 wordsWASHINGTON, Wednesday.—US War Department announces the promotion of Lieutenant General Stilwell, commander of US and ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 105 wordsNAPLES. Wednesday.—New Zealanders of the Eighth Army have edged another mile closer to Florence, but the Germans are fighting fanatically. ...
Article : 204 wordsKANDY, Wednesday.—Troops of the British 14th Army in Burma continue to drive, back the Japanese from Manipur. More good progress has ...
Article : 66 wordsPEARL HARBOUR, Wednesday.—All organised enemy resistance has ended at Tinian in the Marianas. Enemy remnants are being mopped up. ...
Article : 46 wordsWASHINGTON, Wednesday.—The US Under-Secretary of State, Mr E. R. Stettinius, said yesterday that the Soviet Deputy Commissar for ...
Article : 130 wordsGENERAL MacARTHUR'S HQ, Wednesday.—Americans who landed on the Vogelkop Peninsula on Sunday morning have expanded their positions in the Sansapor area; and' now hold 10 miles of coastline, including Sansapor village. Four abandoned Japanese camps have been located, but no contact has yet been made with the enemy. In British New Guinea, Allied ground forces around the Altape-Wewak sector, have crossed the ...
Article : 519 wordsMONTREAL, Wednesday.—Approximately 10,000 American-built fighter planes have been sent to Russia since 1941, half of them flown via ...
Article : 107 wordsMELBOURNE, Wednesday.—The Prime Minister, Mr. Curtin, conferred with General Sir Thomas Blamey this morning on plans for the ...
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Army News (Darwin, NT : 1941 - 1946), Thu 3 Aug 1944, Page 1
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