The Allied forces, under General Eisenhower, opened the invasion of Sicily at 3 o'clock yesterday morning. The first official reports of operations said that everything was going according to plan. ...
Article : 234 wordsThe invasion of Sicily is the climax of the continuous air assaulte which developed with everincreasing weight and fury in the ...
Article : 535 wordsLasses of Allied and neutral merchant ships by U-beat attacks in the Atlantic last month were the lowest since the United States ...
Article : 378 wordsThe United Press representative in Guadalcanar in a delayed dispatch says that the failure of a Japanese torpedo to explode saved the crew ...
Article : 158 wordsThe "Sunday Times" Moscow correspondent says that the Russians are in a difficult position in the Byelgorod area south of the Kursk salient, where the Germans on July 8 drove in two tank wedges. These penetrations are some miles deep ...
Article : 244 wordsThe "New York Times" correspondent in North Africa (Herbert Matthews) says that Sicily contains Italy's greatest fifth column, and that the ...
Article : 146 wordsPresident Roosevelt ent a message to the Pope stating that during the invasion of Italian soil churches and religious institutions ...
Article : 384 wordsThe "Sunday Tunes," in a leader, says: "It is well to recognise that the operations now started aie most difficult and hazardous. The necessary ...
Article : 1,308 wordsThroughout all front line dispatches to Moscow runs the phrase, "We have tamed the terrible tigers" (much vaunted German 60-ton tanks). ...
Article : 473 wordsAn American broadcaster from Al[?]ers states that the 100 miles of [?]-line along which the Allies have [?]ded in Sicily extends north-east ...
Article : 754 wordsA notable feature of the recent German submarine design is that the double [?]ll form used in the larger U-boats of the last war has been ...
Article : 59 wordsAlfred Demarigny has been arrested and charged with having killed his father-in-law. Sir Harry Oakes. one of the richest man in the world, at Nassau, ...
Article : 234 wordsThe Canadian Press correspondent (Ross Munro) with the Canadians in Sicily in a message dated July 10 says the Canadians practically walked into ...
Article : 320 wordsTwo parachutists landed in Eire in 1940, and plans for the invasion of Eire were discovered almost simultaneously. One of the parachutists was not captured for ...
Article : 263 wordsThe R.A.F. switched its main attack last night from the cities to the coal mining areas of the central Ruhr, and caused very heavy damage. ...
Article : 300 wordsAlthough President Roosevelt's message to the Pope contains an intimation that Southern Italy is the next Allied objective, the correspondent of ...
Article : 128 wordsPresident Roosevelt addressing General Giraud and other guests at White House last night said: "I think we can almost say that this action is the ...
Article : 140 wordsThe Polish news agency states that General sosnkowski has been appointed Commander-in-Chief President Rackiewicz has asked M. Mikolajczyk to ...
Article : 33 wordsLeaving White House after a conference with President Roosevelt, Senator T. Connally predicted: "Our forces will sweep through Sicily; I do not ...
Article : 273 wordsA seemingly endless procession of Allied convoys carrying material for the invasion of Europe has been moving from east to west in the ...
Article : 166 wordsThe great international jurist. Sir Cecil Hurst. has been appointed British representative on the United Nations' committee, investigating war crimes. All ...
Article : 110 wordsA U.S. Navy communique states that in the North Pacific early on the morning of Friday U.S. light surface units bombarded Gertrude area. KSka, for ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Editor of "Jane's Fighting Ships" states that the Italian navy has been hard hit. Its losses in destroyers, seagoing torpedo boats and submarines ...
Article : 187 wordsThe headquarters of the Alaska Defence Command has relayed American raiders' reports that the Japanese on Kiska are desperately changing gun ...
Article : 69 wordsThe Leader of the Opposition (Mr A. W. Fadden) will deliver his policy speech over the National radio network from Brisbane at 7.45 p m. on July 22. ...
Article : 116 words"We are ready for an all-out offensive. There is no danger of our being caught short of anything." said the American Director of War Production (Mr. Donald ...
Article : 73 wordsThe Offioe of War Information has disclosed that the invasion was preceded by dropping millions of pamphlets and specrial broadcasts designed to break the ...
Article : 58 wordsMussolini's stabbing of France in the back in 1940 is now being avenged, said the Algiers radio in a broadcast to Italy. ...
Article : 140 wordsAn awe-inspiring sight of the battle [?] in action is described by a bomber pilot returning from plastering the aerodromes in Sicily. "The whole ...
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The Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909 - 1965), Mon 12 Jul 1943, Page 3
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