Majdanak concentration camp of Lublin, Poland is the first German concentration camp seen by correspondents in Europe, and is one of the most famous. More than two million people have been killed there by the Germans. That figure becomes believable when you see the camp as I have seen it, says one of the correspondents. It is on a hill, is surrounded and checkered with barbed wire, and stretches or 25 square kilometres. ...
Article : 587 wordsGunners of an Australian Halifax squadron in Britain have shot down four German night fighters in less than a week. Flight-Sergeant N. E. Robinson, of Horsham, Victoria, rear gunner in a plane piloted by Flying- Officer T. Kenyon, of Albion, Queensland, saw a red tracer fired against ...
Article : 328 wordsCommenting on the Australian Government, proposals for a redistribution of manpower, a leading, article in the London Times points out ...
Article : 225 wordsFIELD-MARSHAL SIR BERNARD MONTGOMERY in conference with the Allied Supreme Commander, General Eisenhdwer, who recently described the famous British leader as "the greatest soldier in history." ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 26 words"The meeting of the victors in Berlin is not far off," says the Moscow newspaper Izvestia. It continues: "The world is living ...
Article : 71 wordsQueensland servicemen who visited the Boomerang Club, while in London last week included:—Allora Pilot-Officer Gerald Brown; ...
Article : 109 wordsLONDON, , Sunday.—Split-second accuracy by British and US meteorological experts meant the difference between complete success and ...
Article : 199 wordsBoot[?]egging is still flourishing in Sydney despite the unceasing efforts of police and customs officials to stamp it out, and dozens of arrests. Prices are soaring to record heights as sales of liquor increase. ...
Article : 281 wordsPublication of a special newspaper for distribution to prisoners of war is being arranged by the Japanese Prisoner of War Bureau, Tokio, according to an International ...
Article : 174 wordsAs soon as he assumes the Governor-Generalship of Australia, the Duke of Gloucester intends to visit airmen at their battle stations in ...
Article : 166 wordsA modern Joan of Arc—the Germans called her "wildcalt"—is the heroine of the Battle for Paris. She is an elusive, slender, ...
Article : 209 wordsThe most widely-distributed book ever printed in Australia cost only 53 of a penny for each copy. It was the Food Ration Book issued last ...
Article : 130 wordsHeadquarters of the Paris resistance was a huge shelter 100 feet under Peris, alongside an 1100-year-old sewer. ...
Article : 61 wordsEarly in the invasion of Normandy, Canadian discovered 19 of their comrades who had been killed by the Germans after having been taken ...
Article : 106 wordsJoe Louis is going to throw publicity instead of punches after the war. Variety, the New York theatrical ...
Article : 76 wordsAlthough Frazier Hunt's new book "MacArthur and the War Against Japan" has been criticised by leading New York papers as over-adulatory to General MacArthur, it has merit in giving Australian: troops more recognition for their part in the New Guinea campaign than other Pacific war ...
Article : 461 wordsJapanese who opened up rifle fire at Balibo, in Portuguese Timor, on an Allied aircraft returning to an Australian base, did not live to tell ...
Article : 172 wordsSabciteurs in Norway have struck another severe blow at Germany's dwindling supplies, according to Norwegian sources in London. ...
Article : 79 wordsThe Australian High Commissioner to Britain, Mr. S. M. Bruce, and Australia House officials, attended the opening performance of a four weeks' ...
Article : 85 wordsAdmiral of the Fleet, Lord Keyes and Lady Keyes will visit Adelaide as part if their Australia-wide tour for the British Government. ...
Article : 101 wordsFlying-Officer Charles Stanley Fulloon, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. W. Fulloon, of Chinchilla, and grandson of Mrs. M. Connors, Doggett ...
Article : 64 wordsThe Duchess of Windsor has entered the Roosevelt Hospital for observation preparatory to an operation for appendicitis, says the New ...
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Army News (Darwin, NT : 1941 - 1946), Tue 5 Sep 1944, Page 3
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