BOUGAINVILLE.—Few actions produced such a spate of acts of heroism as the series of actions in which Australian troops, greatly outnumbered, destroyed front-line fighting elements of the infamous Japanese Sixth Division. As a result our troops hold the vital Slater's Knoll approach to the Hongarai River along the Buin Road. Extrordinary valour was shown by a NSW corporal when the position became desperate during a heavy ...
Article : 682 wordsLONDON.—"The Secret Sappers"—the First Assault Brigade of the Royal Engineers, played an "important part in the capture of Wesel. The first to land on the Normandy beaches, the sappers of the Assault Brigade have since played many parts in the European campaign, going from ...
Article : 356 wordsMANILA.—Transport aircraft sprayed the whole city of Manila on Friday to get rid of the mosquitoes and flies. Householders were warned to cover all ...
Article : 65 wordsMELBOURNE.—In 28 days, RAF Beaufighters sank nearly 700 Japanese vessels in Burma, states a dispatch received from India by the Minister ...
Article : 123 wordsA POWERFUL BARRAGE opened the Eighth Army attack in northern Italy last week. This picture shows a night barrage being laid down by Allied ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 27 wordsNEW YORK.—A Navy pilot parachuted into the middle of the stricken Yamato task force off the Ryukyus Islands and watched from the water for ...
Article : 198 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—Discontinuance of the Commonwealth subsidy on imported synthetic fabrics was demanded by the New South Wales Country Party ...
Article : 70 wordsNEW YORK.—The belief is growing in some military and naval circles, particularly since the accession of the Suzuki Cabinet and Russia's denunciation of the neutrality pact with Japan, that the Japanese will suc for peace before the Allies are in a position to Germanise Japan, says the ...
Article : 176 wordsPARIS. Sunday.—Agreement is reported to have been reached between Australia and France on France's future in the Pacific. ...
Article : 91 wordsLONDON.—A special Paris court sentenced to death Lucien Rottee, chief of the special branch of the French Criminal Investigation Branch under ...
Article : 97 wordsLONDON.—A hundred Allied prisoners 100 weak to move were found by Ninth Army men in a shed across the river Leine, says the British United ...
Article : 150 wordsMANILA.—Patchwork repairs, which threatened to break down at any minute, kept a 13th Air Force Liberator in the air for six hours, and enabled ...
Article : 130 wordsLONDON.—A select committee on national expenditure, reporting on high earnings, reveals that dockers at a northern port at the Easter period last ...
Article : 81 wordsLONDON.—Close co-operation by ships of the Royal Navy and the Royal Indian Navy, and naval and RAF aircraft, resulted in the destruction of ...
Article : 83 wordsLONDON.—The epitaph on Hitler's headstone might well read, "He die not understand Parliament," said the Australian Deputy Prime Minister, Mr. ...
Article : 69 wordsLONDON.—Evidence is available that the German order to shoot Allied parachutists had been carried out, the Minister for War, Sir James Grigg, told the House of Commons. "Strong protests have, of course, ...
Article : 188 wordsNEW YORK.—Manhattan detectives who thought that they knew every thing goggled in amazement at a lincup at police headquarters when a ...
Article : 88 wordsWASHINGTON.—The War Department announced that it was not proceeding with the building of 12 tank plants which had been planned. ...
Article : 51 wordsNEW YORK.—Irvin Caesar, who wrote "Is It True What They Say About Dixie?" has written an answer to the Nazi underground "Werewolf" song ...
Article : 121 wordsLONDON—Only one tugboat is left in Denmark following the escape of Danish ships to Sweden, reports the Stockholm correspondent of Associated ...
Article : 105 wordsLONDON.—To enable the fastest and fullest presentation of news to the public, General Eisenhower has reiterated that, all forces under his command should apply censorship only as demanded by requirments of military security, says the British United Press correspondent at Supreme Alied HQ. ...
Article : 297 wordsLONDON.—According to the Paris newspaper Populaire, the French police have discovered a plot to murder General de Gaulle. ...
Article : 93 wordsWASHINGTON.—Some neutral countries, eviden[?]ly Sweden, Switzerland, probably Italy and others, who sought to be observers at the San Francisco ...
Article : 87 wordsLONDON.—New Japanese war posters are now being placarded over Britain. replacing those referring to the European war. ...
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Army News (Darwin, NT : 1941 - 1946), Tue 17 Apr 1945, Page 3
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