A Chungking communique states that fighting is progressing in the vicinity of Mandalay, which was evacuated on Friday morning. The Chinese are holding Taunggyi. ...
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Article : 148 wordsRed Army units along the whole front yesterday, swore to carry out Premier Stalin's May Day order to make 1942 the year of Germany's final defeat. "Pravda" calls the German threats to launch a Spring offensive a ...
Article : 307 wordsThe latest air activity is outlined in an official communique issued today from General Headquarters. The communique was in the following ...
Article : 218 wordsThe Berlin news agency announced that the R.A.F. raided Hamburg last night and that six of the raiders were shot down. The Air Ministry in London confirmed that the R.A.F. was over enemy territory last night. ...
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Article : 226 wordsThe Air Ministry announced that Fighter Command aircraft attacked strategic points along the Norwegian coast early this ...
Article : 195 words"Home by Christmas" is the slogan adopted by Americans here, who are becoming impatient with Japan's failure to bring bombers over. ...
Article : 89 wordsA Berlin communique states that German submarines, surface vessels and a Luftwaffe formation attacked a strongly protected enemy convoy ...
Article : 127 wordsBombers on Friday night, effectively air-raided aerodromes at Menidi and Maritsa and a submarine base at Portolaki Bay, Leros. ...
Article : 203 wordsThe War Department has issued a list of casualties in the Philippines, including 30 officers and 91 men, but it was explained that the list was ...
Article : 131 wordsThe Navy to-day launched, inside 50 minutes, four new destroyers at the Kearny shipyard. Governor Edison, in a speech, ...
Article : 39 wordsVichy announced that an air raid alert occurred at Marsailles at 1.35 a.m. and also at Toulon. Anti-aircraft guns went into action ...
Article : 40 wordsA message from Stockholm states that seven British airmen, one Australian and one Canadian, who were shot down during the raid last week ...
Article : 98 wordsIt is announced officially that 1,250,000 tons of Axis merchant ships had been sunk in the Mediterranean since Italy's entry into the war. ...
Article : 70 wordsLieut.-General Delos Emmons warned 3,500 air raid wardens of the strategic location and importance of Hawai[?] and indicated that the islands ...
Article : 58 wordsLONDON, Sunday. — Following a wave of looting from bombed buildings at Bath armed Home Guards are patrolling the streets in order to take ...
Article : 38 wordsNEW YORK, Sunday.—The Iranian Minister to Tokyo has been ordered to leave Japan. It is suggested that the action is a reprisal for the ...
Article : 34 wordsLONDON, Monday.—Miners and boys, numbering 1,500, employed at Durham Colliery, went on strike over a disagreement on rates of pay for ...
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The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), Tue 5 May 1942, Page 1
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