LONDON, Thursday.—Australia placed orders for £8,000,000 worth of planes with America because she was advised that Britain would not be able to supply the planes required for several years, the Australian Air Minister, Mr. Drakeford, told pressmen in London today in answer ...
Article : 146 wordsSHARF, THURSDAY.Hammering aa five mile armoured wedge into the heart of von Rundstedt's salient bulging into Belgium, US tanks have relieved the Bastogne garrison after a week's siege. Spearheads lancing out to the north have been blunted four miles shart of the Meuse, and Berlin has admitted withdrawals to the ...
Article : 666 wordsGHQ, PHILIPPINES, Thursday.—One of Japan's most powerful battleships, a heavy cruiser, and six destroyers made a daring dawn attack on US beachheads on Mindoro on Tuesday-one badly hit battleship, a listing heavy cruiser, and three limping destroyers raced for the open sea just two ...
Article : 260 wordsSAIPAN. Thursday. - "The B-29: Surperfortresses have proved themselves a magnificent weapon of war," said Brigadier General Hansell, ...
Article : 143 wordsATHENS, Thursday.—Three possible attempts to kill the British Prime Minister in Athens are claimed by correspondents in the ...
Article : 136 wordsMOSCOW, Thursday. — Tottering Budapest, bisected by a devastating armoured thrust, is in its death throes. Two suburbs are now in Russian hands, the great city is completely encircled, and Hitler's fanatical atormtrooper garrison is now engaged in the final battle of annihilation. ...
Article : 195 wordsPEARL HARBOUR. — Battleships, cruisers, and aircraft carriers of a powerful task force stood close in- shore to give two Jima, 750 miles ...
Article : 109 wordsCEYLON, Thursday.— Indian 25th Division troops have reached the mouth of the Mayu River only four miles from the Jap island fortress ...
Article : 95 wordsMELBOURNE, Thursday. — "Australia faces the most critical shipping shortage since the beginning of the war; 1945 will see the country with a greater shortage that ever before due mainly to the drought," said the Supply Mininster Mr. Beasley, tonight. ...
Article : 200 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday.— "The war in the Pacific has now entered its most critical stage; the battle for the Philippines must be fought to the ...
Article : 140 wordsLONDON, Thursday.— "If Hitler and his gang had thought when they declared war five years ago they would be fighting a losing battle on the ...
Article : 95 wordsPEARL HARBOUR, Thursday.— More than 3,500,000 tons of Jap shipping have been sent to the bottom in Far Eastern waters since Pearl Harbour. ...
Article : 129 wordsBRISBANE Thursday.— A revised Commonwealth basic wage of £5 a week is proposed by the Queensland Central Executive of the Australian ...
Article : 57 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday. — Mr Curtin arrived at Canberra today, and is now resting at the Prime Minister's Lodge after the trip from Melbourne, which ...
Article : 33 wordsROME, Thursday.—US and United Kingdom troops of the Fifth Army south of Bologna in Italy have been forced to make slight withdrawals ...
Article : 105 wordsATHENS, THURSDAY.—"I hope that the Greek people will be able to reach some agreement. The British Government is determined that the whole built-up area of Athens and the Piraeus shall be cleared of armed forces, and whatever force may be necessary will be used to do this," the British Prime Minister, Mr. Churchill, told pressmen after withdrawing from the Greek political representatives' conference, which is now adjourned. ...
Article : 428 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday.— Newsprint supplies for daily and weekly newspapers will not be increased during the next quarter. ...
Article : 69 wordsLONDON, Thursday. — After direct hits by torpedoes from Royal Norwegian Navy warships off the coast of Norway, a Nazi destroyer was sent ...
Article : 69 wordsLONDON, Thursday — The Netherlands Government has called on Spain, Sweden, and Portugal to assist in the recovery and return of ...
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Army News (Darwin, NT : 1941 - 1946), Fri 29 Dec 1944, Page 1
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