WASHINGTON, Saturday.—An estimate of the strength of the US Fieet places the number of ships now in operation in all theatres at three times the figure when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbour. The fleet is reported to comprise, 61,045 vessels, including 1167 ...
Article : 113 wordsSHAEF, SATURDAY.—Powerful blows bows the American First and Third Armies have beaten the Germans back 9 miles from the western tip of their drive into Belgium. A squeezing process against the enemy's flanks is being maintained, while US troops close in on Rochefort, 14 miles from the River Meuse and the ...
Article : 760 wordsLONDON, Saturday.—After a meeting of the British War Cabinet, which Mr. Churchill and the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Eden, attende[?] on their return to London from Greece last night, Mr. Churchill received a visit at No. 10 Downing Street from King George of the Hellenes. ...
Article : 353 wordsROME. Saturday.—The German counter offensive against Fifth Army troops in the Secchia River Valley near the western end of the Italian ...
Article : 170 wordsLONDON.— Saturday. — An earth quake that was described as the most severe for many years shoo[?] northern England last night. ...
Article : 85 wordsGHQ, PHILIPPINES, Saturday. — In the 21st successive daily attack on Iwo Jima, 750 miles south of Tokio, US Liberators from the Marianas yesterday caused extensive damage to harbour facilities and shipping. Heavy AA fire was encountered, but the whole of the attacking force returned. ...
Article : 247 wordsLONDON, Saturday.— An official review, published in London. describes the Allied victories in 1944 and the parts in them played by the ...
Article : 116 wordsSYDNEY, Saturday.— In an interview today, the Commander in Chief of the British Pacific Fleet, Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser, said that he had ...
Article : 97 wordsLONDON, Saturday.—British officers and men, who had toured in Australia. had been received with great kindness, the First Sea Lord of the ...
Article : 103 wordsCEYLON, Saturday.— Officers and men of the Indian Army have won 18 VC's since the outbreak of war. The total number of decorations won ...
Article : 121 wordsADELAIDE, Saturday.—A dense pall of dust almost completely blacked out Adelaide yesterday. A powerful north wind, which swept over the whole of the State, often reached a speed of 50 miles an hour. ...
Article : 119 wordsCEYLON. Saturday. — The British 4th Army advance on the Arakan coastal plain in south-west- Burma continues to make good progress. ...
Article : 170 wordsLISBON, Saturday.— A hitch has occurred in the sailing plans of the Swedish Red Cross ship carrying relief supplies for the still-occupied ...
Article : 86 wordsWASHINGTON. Saturday. — A US State Department report announced that America will send the strongest possible protest to Germany against the recent ...
Article : 47 wordsMOSCOW, Friday.—Red troops smashed into a new section of Budapest from the west yesterday and began cutting down the trapped Axis garrison in hand to 'hand fighting. In another fierce battle to the north of the city an isolated German force was wiped out and 2000 prisoners captured. ...
Article : 201 wordsMELBOURNE. Saturday.— The Acting Chief of Staff of the Royal Netherlands Indies Army, Colonel Jonkheer Sandberg, died in Melbourne ...
Article : 80 wordsCANBERRA, Saturday. — The US Secretary of State, Mr Stettinius, and the Australian Attorney-General. Doctor Evatt, have exchanged New ...
Article : 62 wordsCANBERRA. Saturday. — The Australian Council of Trades Unions will hold a special meeting during the week-end to consider the ...
Article : 78 wordsLONDON, Saturday. — General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson. the senior British military representative on the Chief of Staff's Committee in ...
Article : 61 wordsSYDNEY. Saturday. — In a quarrel at Narrandera last night between two boys aged six and four respectively, Stanley Carrol stabbed the other ...
Article : 49 wordsLONDON, Saturday.— The same force of Lancasters which sank the German pocket battleship, Tirpitz, in Tromco Flord, Norway, on November 12. made ...
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Army News (Darwin, NT : 1941 - 1946), Sun 31 Dec 1944, Page 1
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