Correspondents in the Mediterranean theatre say that the Riviera landing was one of the war's worst kept secrets. One local Italian paper specifically mentioned the impending landings. A correspondent says that he overheard an, American nurse at a restaurant say ...
Article : 100 wordsLONDON, Friday.—In southern France, Allied troops are methodically advancing against what is described officially as "crumbling resistance" in nearly all sectors. The beachhead is expanding swiftly and now has an area of more than 500 square miles. Inland, our troops have penetrated 25 miles while on the east, our forces ...
Article : 760 wordsLONDON, Friday.—The German propaganda minister, Goebbels, writing in his paper, "Das Reich," has a recipe for a German victory. ...
Article : 77 wordsLONDON, Friday.—Mosquitoes last night made a heavy raid with 4000 pound bombs on the German industrial town of Mannheim. ...
Article : 151 wordsNEW DELHI, Friday.—The Viceroy of India, Lord Wavell, has made public recent correspondence between himself and Mahatma Ghandi. ...
Article : 150 wordsNAPLES, Friday,—Allied troops have occupied more advanced positions in the upper Tiber Valley cast and west of the River Arno. ...
Article : 175 wordsMOSCOW, Friday.—Russian troops now stand on the frontiers of East. Prussia. The invading army approached German soil along the classic route of attack which leads from Kovno, in Lithuania, parallel with the railway that runs to Insterburg and thence to Konigsberg, the capital. ...
Article : 301 wordsLONDON, Friday.—Bulgaria wants to get out of the war, announced the Bulgarian Prime Minister today. He said he and his government were ...
Article : 81 wordsLONDON, Friday.—A sidelight on the part played by the Navy in the Normandy operations was given by the Admiralty today. ...
Article : 120 wordsMELBOURNE. Friday.—The Chief engineer of the Alfed Works Council in Victoria said today there would be less criticism of the AWC it ...
Article : 127 wordsGENERAL MacARTHUR'S HQ, Friday.— The steady advance westward of Allied air activity is reducing the enemy's potential strength in the Moluccas, the deterioration being immediately evident in his disposition of his merchant shipping. It is becoming quite apparent that the Jap can ...
Article : 524 wordsAUCKLAND. Friday.—In the Supreme Court here today, Mr. Justice Callan refused to believe that a woman could have a child at 53 years of ...
Article : 145 wordsLONDON, Friday.—The British and United States Governments have agreed to Hungary's proposals that they should be responsible for the ...
Article : 142 wordsCANBERRA. Friday.—Department of Information monitors have intercepted a Tokio broadcast in which it is stated that Japan's man and ...
Article : 96 wordsKANDY, Friday.— The British 14th Army is now well across the Burma border in the Tiddim area. On one five mile stretch of road ...
Article : 79 wordsWASHINGTON, Friday.—A formal statement from Governor Thomas E. Dewey, Republican candidate in the forthcoming US Presidential ...
Article : 129 wordsWASHINGTON. Friday.—On his return from his tour of the Central Pacific battlefronts, President Roosevelt told his press conference that ...
Article : 98 wordsLONDON, Friday.—Today. RAF Typhoons had their greatest day of the war. A Wing Commander flying over the Falaise pocket saw what he ...
Article : 95 wordsNAPLES, Friday.—An Allied landing has been made in Albania, it was announced today. Beyond the information that the land ...
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Army News (Darwin, NT : 1941 - 1946), Sat 19 Aug 1944, Page 1
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