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  3. COLOGNE DESTRUCTION WORSE THAN IN STALINGRAD

    LONDON (A.A.P.).—Devastation in Cologne, which was captured yesterday, is worse than Stalingrad. It is estimated that 85 per cent. of the city has been ...

    Article : 929 words
  4. VITAL BRIDGES OVER RHINE AT COLOGNE

    An air reconnaissance picture of one of the Rhine bridges which will be of great strategic importance in the battle of Germany. The picture shows Cologne, the road and rail bridges linking Aachen and Central Germany. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 42 words
  5. U.S. LANDING ON IWO-JIMA WAS VERY TOUGH JOB

    Amtracs and trucks used by the "Fighting Fourth" Marine Division as it battled its way ashore at Iwo-Jima litter the black sands of the beach on the afternoon of D-day. First aid stations were set up among the debris of wrecked and blasted amtraec, landing barges, jeeps and trucks. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  6. WAR FRONT SUMMARY

    Cologne has been captured. It is more devastated than Stalingrad. South of Cologne Americans are near Bonn and ...

    Article : 119 words
  7. PACIFIC STRATEGY CHANGED LIMITED ROLE FOR BRITISH FLEET

    LONDON (A.A.P.).—"The British Fleet is believed to have been assigned a comparatively minor role in the Pacific war," says the "Daily Mail" correspondent in New York. ...

    Article : 356 words
  8. Stettin Nearly Cut Off From Sea: Storming of City Near

    LONDON (A.A.P.).—Russian guns are moving up to command Stettin and the seaward approaches. The port is already virtually cut off from the sea and the great shipyards and submarine assembly plants are directly threatened, says Reuters correspondent in Moscow. A POWERFUL armoured ring is being ...

    Article : 502 words
  9. GENERALS' BODIES FOUND

    CANBERRA.—Four bodies have so far been recovered from the aircraft which crashed into the sea near Cairns on Monday afternoon with the ...

    Article : 162 words
  10. REORGANISING A.M.F. SOON

    CANBERRA.—Strong hints of the reorganisation of the composition and command of the A.M.F. after present ...

    Article : 359 words
  11. BIG U.S. NAVY PROGRAMME

    WASHINGTON (A.A.P.) — The U.S. Navy has announced that it has ordered the construction of 84 additional war, ships, aggregating 636,860 tons, . ...

    Article : 56 words
  12. IWO ASSAULT RESUMED

    GUAM (A.A.P.)—Following the most intense artillery bombardment or the Japanese positions since the operations on Iwo-Jima began, elements of the ...

    Article : 122 words
  13. USED CANOES FOR LANDING

    MANILA. — Members of the American 11th Airborne Division have been dropped by parachute and have landed from ...

    Article : 279 words
  14. FASCIST'S ESCAPE CAUSES RIOTING IN ROME

    ROME (A.A.P.).—A crowd of several thousand, after demonstrating outside the Colosseum against the escape of the war criminal, General Mario Roatta, attacked the Quirinal, the Italian Royal Palace, now the residence of the Lieut.-General ...

    Article : 289 words
  15. WANT CHIANG TO ATTEND 'FRISCO TALKS

    WASHINGTON (A.A.P.)—According to Associated Press, the authorities have urged Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek to attend the San Francisco conference ...

    Article : 52 words
  16. RAPID ADVANCE N. OF MANDALAY

    CENTRAL BURMA (A.A.P.).—In a swift advance against disorganised Japanese resistance, the 19th Indian Division has moved 11 miles nearer Mandalay from the north. THEY HAVE reached the village of ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 252 words
  17. "MILK-RUN" TO TOKIO

    NEW YORK (A.A.P.).—U.S. carrier planes could bomb Japan successfully for days and weeks at a time, Vice-Admiral ...

    Article : 297 words
  18. GEN. STURDEE IN COMMAND

    MELBOURNE—Gen. Sir Thomas Blamey has announced that the exclusively Australian operations in Northern New Guinea, New Britain ...

    Article : 38 words
  19. PASS BLOCKED FOR MONTH

    LONDON (A.A.P.)—Planes of the Mediterranean Tactical Air Force kept the vital Brenner Pass line blocked every day in February. ...

    Article : 77 words
  20. SHIP BLOWS UP IN VANCOUVER HARBOUR

    VANCOUVER (A.A.P.)—The Government-owned freighter, Greenhill Park, 10,000 tons, which "was loading general cargo for Australia, blew up at ...

    Article : 63 words
  21. DIGEST OF THE LEADERS

    THE financial cost of the Second World War to date runs into staggering figures. Australia alone has spent. in the last five years, ...

    Article : 130 words
  22. NAZIS REGROUP IN ITALY

    ROME (A.A.P.) —With the Fifth Army's local offensive S.W. of "Bologna now in its third week and still going strong, the Germans seem to be taking ...

    Article : 128 words
  23. Churchill Fires at Rhine Escape Route: Sees Siegfried Defences

    LONDON (A.A.P.).—When he visited the battlefront near Julich, east of Aachen, on Sunday, Mr. Churchill selected a 240 millimetre shell, chalked on it "To Hitler, personally" and fired the gun at one of the main German escape routes over the Rhine. ...

    Article : 348 words
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