A young Tasmanian officer, Lieutenant Bert Miller, of Launceston, lived through two deadly experiences while he was in Japanese hands. His ship was torpedoed with great loss of life off the Japanese coast and he was in Nagasaki when the city was razed and burned by the atom bomb. ...
Article : 668 wordsEMACIATED and diseased prisoner-of-war stretcher cases brought on board the US Navy hospital ship Benevolence, after they were ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 30 wordsWASHINGTON.—If Japan had not surrendered she would have been invaded by a huge Allied force on Thursday, November 1. This was disclosed to Congress by the US Chief of Staff, General Marshall. General Marshall assured Congress ...
Article : 274 wordsNEW YORK. — The three Pineon brothers, of Salisbury, North Carolina, don't know when death will come, but they know they will die ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 118 wordsLONDON.— Eighteen repatriated prisoners from the Far East, 16 of whom are officers, have been forbidden by the War Office to discuss ...
Article : 87 wordsBRUSSELS. — World peace was entirely in the hands of the United States, declared M. Maurice Lambiliotte, economic adviser to ...
Article : 118 wordsLONDON.— Horrified lunchtime crowds in Piccadilly watched a woman swaying atop of a seven-story attic roof for 10 minutes before she jumped 100 feet to death on the pavement of Regent Street. While a policeman and a ...
Article : 259 wordsLONDON.—Scientists latest product is atomic cocoa. About 100 tubes of this concoction—a mild explosive mixed with cocoa and ...
Article : 99 wordsWEWAK, Sunday. — In addition to 14,000 other officers and men, 18 Japanese generals are to be held on Mushu Island, off Wewak. ...
Article : 110 wordsLONDON.—The ban on British newspapermen seeing the Duke and Duchess of Windsor when the Argentina arrives at Plymouth has now been ...
Article : 79 wordsPRAGUE, Sunday.—Field Marshal Montgomery received a tremendous welcome in Prague yesterday. He flew to Prague Prom Berlin after presiding at the Allied ...
Article : 38 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.— Two punters on Saturday backed Repshot to win £30,000 between them and Repshot duly carried out his part of the bargain. About three lengths behind the outsider Tribal at the Leger, Repshot just got up in time to get the verdict. Craigie set out to make the pace ...
Article : 677 wordsCAIRO, Sunday. —"Tripolitania must remain completely independent; no mandate will be tolerated by the Arabs," the Secretary-General of ...
Article : 81 wordsBERLIN, Sunday. — Without any prior warning, the Russian team for the inter Allied sports programme to be held on the old Olympic Games arena, in Berlin ...
Article : 49 wordsCANBERRA, Sunday. — The two RAAF Walrus pilots on HMAS Perth, lost in 1942, are safe. They are Flight Lieutenant A. M. Donner and Flight Sergeant ...
Article : 40 wordsWELLINGTON.—The New Zealand Government is dissatisfied with the present conditions of the award for the Pacific and 1939-45 Stars, and the matter is ...
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Army News (Darwin, NT : 1941 - 1946), Tue 25 Sep 1945, Page 4
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