LONDON.—The Victoria Cross has been awarded posthumously to Jamadar Parkash Singh, of the 13th Frontier Force Rifles, Indian Army. On the night of February 15, Singh was in command of a platoon of a rifle company holding a company-defended locality against heavy odds. ...
Article : 479 wordsCANBERRA.—The Department of Information understands that a flood of horror films showing grim death campscenes in Germany will reach Australia ...
Article : 118 wordsLIEUTENANT GENERAL JAMES DOOLITTLE, leader of the famous first raid on Tokio, an whose Eighth Air Force blasted Nazi ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 43 wordsLONDON. — V. Day is likely to be a saber festival in Britain. Uncertainty about Government policy concerning official celebrations and doubt when ...
Article : 118 wordsAUCKLAND.—The Housewives' Association in prosecuting in the Magistrates Court 53 employees of the Auckland Gas Company who were ...
Article : 62 wordsBOUGAINVILLE.—Australian Comforts Fund Commissioner at Torokina, Captain C. W. Game, reports hat after overcoming a lot of difficulties, ice ...
Article : 166 wordsLONDON.—The War Office, reporting an inspection of two Japanese war prisoners' camps in Korea last November, describes the conditions as ...
Article : 165 wordsNEW YORK.— A gang of juvenile burglars which committed 100 robberies in Chicago in six months has been arrested. ...
Article : 147 wordsMELBOURNE, Friday.—At the end of last year the total accumulated profit of the Army Canteen Services was £2,334,000 and by the end of the ...
Article : 119 wordsLONDON.—May Day marchers in Paris carried hundreds of miniature scaffolds from which dangled effigies of Marshal Petain, now awaiting trial ...
Article : 35 wordsLONDON.—The military correspondent of The Times points out that the Russian prisoners in Allied hands, about whose treatment a Moscow Radio ...
Article : 119 wordsLONDON.—Brunettes have a longer expectation of life, are more intelligent and manage better on clothing coupons —that's why gentlemen marry them. ...
Article : 124 wordsNEW YORK.—The recent destruction by RAF bombers of Hitler's Berchtesgaden eyrie has resulted in renewed demands in the United States for a declaration of the Emperor Hirohito's palace, as a military target. A Democratic representative, ...
Article : 264 wordsLONDON.— More than 2,500,000 refugees and displaced persons have been liberated and prisoners of war been freed since the Allied entry into ...
Article : 128 wordsSAN FRANCISCO. — Several delegations, including the Australian, are worried about a move by the big Powers to wind up the World Security ...
Article : 154 wordsLONDON.—Tommy-guns were the most popular choice of the small boys in the badly blitzed borough of Wands-worth when a quantity of Australia's ...
Article : 49 wordsNEW YORK.—The invasion of Borneo by Australian troops is hailed in the United States as having vitally important consequences to the entire Allied ...
Article : 103 wordsHOLLYWOOD. — Merle Oberon, the Australian film actress, has departed for Mexico with the announced purpose of divorcing Sir Alexander Korda, the film ...
Article : 35 wordsLONDON.—Few prisoners have been as important as the German. Field Marshals von, List and von Leeb, captured by the US Seventh Army. Field Marshal Siegmund Wilhelm Walther von List for a time ...
Article : 420 wordsLONDON, — Rudolph, Hess brother, Alfred Hess, former commandant of the staff at the headquarters of the Nazi Party, has been taken prisoner near the ...
Article : 39 wordsLONDON.—In connection with a report from its New York correspondent, the Daily Mail publishes the following: In the Daily Mail we stated that Lady ...
Article : 121 wordsLONDON.—Mussolini's head was cut off before the rest of the body was buried in a concealed grave, says the Milan correspondent of The Times. The naked body was packed in sawdust, another correspondent states. Decapitation must have been ...
Article : 281 wordsNEW YORK.—Nineteen per cent of Americans believe minor Nazi officials who have committed crimes under the order of higher authorities should be ...
Article : 114 wordsLOS ANGELES.—Film director Gregory la Cava has filed a suit, claiming £496,000 from Mary Pickford. He claims that Mary Pickford has ...
Article : 104 wordsLONDON.— Managing director of OANTAS Empire Airways. Mr Hudson Fysh is tipped in London for one of the major administrative posts with ...
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Army News (Darwin, NT : 1941 - 1946), Mon 7 May 1945, Page 3
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