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Advertising : 152 wordsTaking part in an attack on Leipzig in December, this Lancaster, "O for Orange," was raked with cannon and machine-gun fire from a night fighter, but was brought home safely. Not one of the crew was hurt, though both cockpits were damaged, both gun turrets shot up, and the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 72 wordsLONDON, Monday (A.A.P.) — The most intense week-end of air bombing of the war was rounded off last night by a very heavy R.A.F. assault on Stuttgart, in S.W. Germany. Soon ...
Article : 465 wordsThe 35,000-ton French battleship Richelieu, damaged by British torpedoes at Dakar in 1940, and repaired in New York in 1943, reached Oran in December to serve with the Allied naval forces. She carries eight 15[?] guns, has a speed of 30 knots, and had cost £11,000,000 when she ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 62 wordsWASHINGTON, Monday (A.A.P.).— The usefulness of Truk as a major Japanese supply base and refuelling centre for the Pacific has been smashed. The ...
Article : 564 wordsLONDON, Monday (A.A.P.). —German bombers, in a short, fierce raid on London last night, scattered incendiaries ...
Article : 254 wordsLONDON, Monday (A.A.P.)—After resisting for 48 hours a fierce attack from six German divisions, the Fifth Army at the Anzio beach-head has thrown the enemy back and taken hundreds of prisoners. ...
Article : 525 wordsLONDON, Monday (A.A.P.)—A new Russian trap threatens to wipe out the German salient east of Pskov and to open the road to the Baltic States, says British United Press correspondent in Moscow. ...
Article : 469 wordsSTOCKHOLM,. Monday (A.A.P.).—Information which has filtered through rigid German censorship regarding the recent R.A.F. raids on Berlin reveals ...
Article : 93 wordsLONDON. Monday (A.A.P.).— Raiders over England last night dropped "flutterers." possibly to confuse radio location, says the ...
Article : 66 wordsCANBERRA. Monday, — Questioned to-day on the future of the Advisory War Council, in view of the resignation of two of its U.A.P. members, Messrs. ...
Article : 100 wordsLONDON, Sunday (B.O.W.).—The commanding officer and six members of the first commando Fiji guerrillas have received awards for gallantry and ...
Article : 116 wordsSTOCKHOLM, Monday (A.A.P).—It is reliably reported from Finnish sources that M. Paasikivi, special Finnish Emissary to Stockholm, will soon ...
Article : 37 wordsMELBOURNE, Monday.—Speaking at the annual meeting of the Young Nationalist Organisation to-night on the proposed referendum. Mr. MacFarlan, ...
Article : 103 wordsThe British United Press aviation correspondent points out that the R.A.F. and U.S.A.A.F. in a little over 24 hours dropped about 6000 ...
Article : 68 wordsCANBERRA, Monday.—Flying of flags from Commonwealth buildings on Wednesday to celebrate the Red Army's recent series of victories has been ...
Article : 45 wordsNEW YORK, Sunday.—The 27,000 ton aircraft carrier, Shangri-La, will be launched at the Norfolk navy yard, Virginia, on February 24. thirteen ...
Article : 91 wordsNEW YORK, Monday (A.A.P.) —The Japanese Army and Navy Chiefs of Staff have been sacked and Gen. Tojo, Prime Minister, and Admiral Shimada, Navy Minister, have taken command. ...
Article : 103 wordsGen. MacArthur's H.Q., Monday—Fifteen hundred tons of bombs have been dropped on Rabaul in two weeks. That total was reached on Friday, when the Vunakanau and Tobera aerodromes were blasted again by Mitchells and Liberators from ...
Article : 158 wordsLONDON, Sunday (B.O.W.)—Three of a number of U-boats which attempted to make individual passages from the Atlantic through the Strait of Gibraltar to the Mediterranean during a moonless period recently were intercepted and ...
Article : 519 wordsWASHINGTON, Monday (A.A.P.)— Eniwetok atoll, most westerly of the Marshall Islands, is almost completely in American hands. Its capture will complete the neutralisation of the Marshalls. ...
Article : 229 wordsMiss Stella Bowen, a South Australian residing in England, has accepted appointment as an official war artist and took up duty at the beginning of this ...
Article : 164 wordsTHE British people have a genius for striking a sensible balance between state control and private initiative. This is exemplitied in ...
Article : 85 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—In the Special Federal Court to-day, Frederick L. Paul. master butcher, of Bondi, and federal president of the Meat and ...
Article : 111 wordsNEW DELHI, Sunday (A.A.P.)—The main Japanese force on the Arakan front is "becoming unco-ordinated" in face of continuous and growing pressure of Allied troops, says to-day's S.E. Asia communique. ...
Article : 143 wordsPresident Roosevelt has issued a proclamation that a representation of an American flag may be stamped on war goods shipped abroad. This move is ...
Article : 86 wordsLONDON, Sunday (A.A.P.).—The man who led the first raid on Tokio. Major General J. H. Doolittle, declared in a broadcast to America to-day that ...
Article : 88 wordsBOMBAY, Monday (A.A.P.)—It was announced to-day that Mrs. Gandhi's condition has been deteriorating for some days and now is very grave. ...
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Examiner (Launceston, Tas. : 1900 - 1954), Tue 22 Feb 1944, Page 1
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