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Article : 316 wordsCAPT RICHARD COFFMAN, senior Pacific convoy commander, who has not lost a ship, told reporters that ...
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Article : 78 wordsLONDON, Monday.—The Admiralty announces that the submarine Traveller is overdue and presumed lest.—AAP. ...
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Article : 254 wordsThis anti-aircraft gun and its sunken emplacement were abandoned by the Japanese and seized by US marines during the American occupation of strategic positions in the Solomons. Much ammunition also was seized. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 128 wordsAustralians and Americans who have reached an Australian city invalided home from New Guinea said that the Japs, in New Guinea proved themselves ...
Article : 139 wordsJERUSALEM, Monday. — A communique reports that in different parts of Palestine terrorism and hooliganism is being perpetrated by persons who ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 26 Jan 1943, Page 2
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