SACRAMENTO, USA, Tuesday.—The Army is built, the Navy is well along, but maintenance still is a problem, Major-General L. B. Hershey, National Selective Service Director, said on Saturday. "Despite the present satisfactory situation, you've got to brace yourself ...
Article : 113 wordsLONDON, Tuesday.—"To-day, US, British and French troops, supported by Allied Air Forces and strongly supported by British, US and French fleets, are being landed in southern France" Thus, the laconic and only official communique from Allied Mediterranean Headquarters on one of the most dramatic moves of a war that ...
Article : 733 wordsMOSCOW, Tuesday.—Russian troops have scaled the 30 foot wall of the German stronghold of Osowiec and wiped out the enemy garrison. They ...
Article : 185 wordsAMERICAN GUN CREW reloading one of the US Army's new 120 mm anti-aircraft guns after firing. Designed and developed for use ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 49 wordsWASHINGTON, Tuesday.—A United Press message says there is a distant possibility of a meeting shortly between Roosevelt and Churchill to ...
Article : 129 wordsCESSNOCK, Tuesday.— A local people's court may be set up at Cessnock, NSW, to decide an issue and settle a strike of Cessnock Quarry employees. ...
Article : 120 wordsCHUNGKING, Tuesday. — Chinese troops have redoubled their attack on the city of Hengyang, and the Chinese High Command says that ...
Article : 49 wordsWASHINGTON, Monday. — On his return to the USA, the British Ambassador, Lord Halifax, referred to the great damage caused in England ...
Article : 136 wordsKANDY, Tuesday. — The Japanese rearguard is falling back before the main body of the 14th British Army advancing down the Tiddim Road in ...
Article : 74 wordsNAPLES, Tuesday. — At a sports meeting held recently in the island of Corsica, Australians from an RAAF fighter squadron competed against. US, British and French teams. ...
Article : 90 wordsLONDON, Tuesday.—The London Times' correspondent at Bayeux, in Normandy, says that arrangements have been made for General de Gaulle's French Committee of National Liberation to fly from Algiers to Paris as soon as it is captured or liberated and undertake the country's government. ...
Article : 195 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday. — The girls of Laurieton, the township on the NSW north coast where the plane in which Bob Hope and his party of ...
Article : 135 wordsPEARL HARBOUR, Tuesday.— Admiral Nimitz has received a letter from residents of Guam Island thanking the people of USA for their ...
Article : 156 wordsGENERAL MacARTHUR'S HQ, Tuesday.—It is becoming plain that the continuous and heavy attacks against Halmahera, the big island between the western tip of Dutch New Guinea and the Philippines, are having their effect. In the last series of raids carried out against this base, great ...
Article : 453 wordsNAPLES, Tuesday. — The British Army has entered the central part of the city of Florence and the troops received a great welcome from ...
Article : 167 wordsThe latest reports about the invasion of Southern France show that the landings were made between Nice and Marseilles. The first ...
Article : 122 wordsPEARL HARBOUR, Tuesday. — A message from Chungking says that the Japs are voluntarily evacuating Manila, the capital of the Philippines. ...
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Army News (Darwin, NT : 1941 - 1946), Wed 16 Aug 1944, Page 1
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