SYDNEY.— Lofty Quinn and Ronald Jones, able-bodied seaman of the new British Pacific Fleet, recently came ashore in Sydney, There's nothing of the old horny-fisted, teak-faced, shiver-my-timbers seadog about these British tars of 1945, yet they're made of the some enduring stuff which has given the Royal Navy its traditions. Ronald Jones, AB, just 28 years ...
Article : 756 wordsLONDON—This is how the Russians celebrate a great victory—in this case the fall of Warsaw:—As soon as M. Levitan, Moscow's chief ...
Article : 185 wordsBRISBANE, Wednesday.—Frederick William Everest, 34 of Langley ,Street, Wilston, was arrested, to-night and charged with having ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 222 wordsLONDON.— French refugees who escaped to Britain, America, and other asylum countries, taking property with them, will have to pay a 20 ...
Article : 130 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.—LAC H. Knight, of Woollahra, Sydney, NSW, has been awarded the BEM for bravery on a forward airfield in Italy. ...
Article : 76 wordsWARWICK (Queensland).— A mistake made more than 20 years ago in a name on the Warwick war memorial in Leslie Park is to be ...
Article : 136 wordsLONDON.— Hitler's ultimate aim was to put Britain out of the war when he ordered the Ardennes break-through. This is the conclusion reached from the Statement of a captured ...
Article : 167 wordsMELBOURNE.— Working on occasions for more than 24 hours without sleep, four pilots of the RANR are earning many tributes at a ...
Article : 137 wordsAustralians in the Torricelli mountains have divided the area into feuding" zones. This has been done because of keen competition among Australian patrols. At their. base at Walum, the Australians have a huge map of the zones. Each patrol is allotted one feuding area, and is entitled only ...
Article : 196 wordsLONDON—Practically the entire population of the suburb of Praga, 100,000 men, women and children carrying picks and shovels, crossed ...
Article : 124 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday.— Letters and general mail weighing up to 4½ pounds may now be sent to addresses in France, the Postmaster ...
Article : 62 wordsNEW YORK.—America's newest offensive weapon in the Pacific is the "sea jeep"—the quickly built little escort carrier. ...
Article : 115 wordsUS amphibious landing craft roll along close to the pounding surf on a training beach. The ebbing tide has left pools of water in the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 43 wordsLONDON.— Post-war cars would be fundamentally 1940 models, but would incorporate many improvements resulting from wartime experience, said Sir. William Rootes. When the Government gave the ...
Article : 264 wordsNEW YORK.— The familiar rumour that Hitler's use of women as tank drivers was proof of a shortage of manpower has been blown by a ...
Article : 137 wordsSYDNEY.—If any books had been made on this year's Archibald Prize award it would have been a bad day for the turf accountants, for the hot favourite, Joshua Smith, had no difficulty in catching the judges' eye with his portrait of Mr Rosevear, the Federal Speaker, at his desk, writes Clive Turnbull in the Melbourne Herald. As everyone had been predicting this for days, everyone, except perhaps some of the competitors, was happy. ...
Article : 459 wordsPARIS.—French police have ejected the Spanish Republicans from the Spanish Chamber of Commerce which they seied last month. ...
Article : 42 wordsNEW YORK.—New York has had three heavy snowstorms, including a blizzard, in ten days. Hundreds of New Yorkers ...
Article : 75 wordsWASHINGTON, Wednesday.—More than 30,000. prefabricated houses for essential war workers at present living in blitzed areas in Britain ...
Article : 51 wordsLONDON.—A famous rocket—Typhoon pilot, Wing Commander Walter Dring, has been killed while flying with the RAF on the Western Front. ...
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Army News (Darwin, NT : 1941 - 1946), Fri 26 Jan 1945, Page 3
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