NEW BRITAIN.—Australians have fought another Shaggy Ridge battle. A section advanced 100 yards along a razor-back track four feet wide with sheer drops on either on either side. It was attacking Cake Hill which overlooks Waitavalo plantation, an important Jap stronghold on the Gazelle Peninsula. ...
Article : 469 wordsWASHINGTON.—That the British battleship Nelson, firing at almost 20 miles range, exploded a truck load of German ammunition with a direct hit from a 16-inch shell, was revealed here by the ship's commander ...
Article : 93 wordsTYPICAL OF RAF PILOTS OF MOSQUITOES hammering Berlin is Squadron Leader D. C. S. MacDonald, of Vancouver, Canada, photographed in ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 26 wordsNEW YORK.—Unopposed German bombers destroyed an American-built Russian air field and 47 grounded Flying Fortresses in a two-hour attack on June 21, 1944. ...
Article : 115 wordsCANBERRA.—Allegations that 40 percent of the cattle driven from the Northern Territory to Queensland to form a war cattle pool three years. ...
Article : 146 wordsNEW YORK.—At least 300 sunken ships are clogging Manila Harbour, says Commodore william sullivan. who salvaged the Normandie, and also ...
Article : 84 wordsWASHINGTON.-The State Department, says the Associated Press of America, has made repeated protests against the Japanese practice ...
Article : 131 wordsLONDON.—Focke-Wulf 109's scattered by Thunderbolts last week jettisoned their bombs on their own city of Frankfurt in their hurry to get away. ...
Article : 54 wordsWASHINGTON.—A suggestion that the united States should cease meat shipments to Britain and Europe and reduce supplies to the armed forces has caused a first-class crisis which may call for president Roosevelt's ...
Article : 152 wordsNEW YORK.—Japanese schoolchildren in fifth and sixth grades are being trained in bayonet charges. The children are enthusiastic. ...
Article : 41 wordsHOLLYWOOD.—More than 5000 yelling fans jammed Hollywood Boulevard to hail screen heroes and heroines as they arrived at Grauman's Chinese Theatre to attend the ceremony of awarding the statuettes presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and sciences for the best performances. ...
Article : 239 wordsMELBOURNE.—RAAF Beaufort bombers, operating in the Aitape Wewakares of New Guinea, have flown 1058 sorties since the Beginning of the Year. Northern New Guinea wing of Northern Command dropped 46,119 bombs, of a total weight of nearly 8,000,000-lb last year. ...
Article : 169 wordsOTTAWA.— The Canadian Press Association says that no information is available about the canadian attitude to the British preposal for ...
Article : 90 wordsLONDON.— One thousand Allied airmens who have bailed out Over yugoslavia have been saved by yugoslav aid, it is officially revealed. ...
Article : 117 wordsLONDON.—The blockade of Japan would be Germany, the Minister for Economic warfare, Lord selborne, told the Rotary club. ...
Article : 98 wordsPARIS.—The High Court Sentenced Admiral Jean Esteva, aged 64, former Resident-General in Tunisia, to life imprisonment, military ...
Article : 99 wordsLONDON.—An escaped British war prisoner—Flight sergeant Donald Meese, of sheffield— has arrived at a Middle East port from odessa with his German bride. ...
Article : 175 wordsLONDON.—The German News agency said on Friday that von Metaxa, the Austrian Davis Cup player had been killed on the Western Front. ...
Article : 25 wordsNEW YORK.—Confidence that Marjorie Lawrence, Australian opera singer, and infantile paralysis victim, will walk unaided within six months, was expressed by her husband, Doctor Thomas king. ...
Article : 188 wordsWASHINGTON, Sunday.— The US Under-secretary of State, Mr Joseph Grew, who was a former US Ambassador to Tokio, has compared the ...
Article : 99 wordsMELBOURNE.—Part of the audience at a Berlin cinema recently interrupted the performance by standing up and shouting, ''Let the British ...
Article : 107 wordsLONDON.—A Flying Fortress flew pilotles[?] for 150 miles across Germany with one wing on fire before the tail-gunner discovered he was the only man on board. ...
Article : 140 wordsMELBOURNE.—The RAAF operates an air ambulance system from the Australian mainland to far-flung pacific islands. The range includes Bougainville, Morotai, Biak, and Noemfoor Island, and probably covers a wider. ...
Article : 147 wordsCANBERRA.—Two Australian squadrons in Britain have new commanding officers. The Minister for Air, Mr. Drakeford, ...
Article : 82 wordsNEW YORK.—A soldiers who was discharged from the US Army rafter having been- injured by an under- ground train, war awarded 38,125 ...
Article : 97 wordsLONDON.—Lord. Reith, former Director-General, of the BBC has returned from a- 50,O000-mile tour of inspection of, Empire . tele-communication's. ...
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Army News (Darwin, NT : 1941 - 1946), Tue 20 Mar 1945, Page 3
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