Within a week of going into action in Brittany on August 1, the American Third Army liberated an area in which the normal population is ...
Article : 199 wordsHonours and awards to Australian airmen serving in all theaters to July 31 total 2200. Including 1374 hattle medals or bars, these comprise meritorious service decorations, mentions in despatches, and Birthday Honours. Gallantry decorations won since ...
Article : 457 wordsBerlin Radio stated at the weekend:—"Hitler has awarded von Bloch, commander of the St. Malo Citadel, ...
Article : 71 wordsThe NZ Minister for Works, Mr. Semple, said in Auckland last week that since the war began New, Zealand had built 25,000 homes, of which ...
Article : 102 wordsFour Dutch civil pilots with KLM and KNILM airlines in peacetime are now in a NEI Mitchell medium bomber unit pounding Jap ...
Article : 103 wordsThe Argentine Embassy has issued a statement that, in view of current versions which may affect the Argentine's prestige derived from faith ...
Article : 89 wordsThe food famine in Bengal last year found nearly everyone unprepared, said the Rev. R. W. Edmeades, who has arrived at an Australian ...
Article : 167 wordsGeneral de Gaulle's Provisional French Government will fly from Algiers to Paris as soon as that city is liberated, says the Bayeux, ...
Article : 83 wordsWith a chocolate-coated peanut wedged in his windpipe, Jimmy Drowell, 3½, was flown to a Hollywood hospital, where an operation ...
Article : 102 wordsEmiliene Moreau, a French heroine of this war and the last, has reached London after eluding, the Gestapo for many months. ...
Article : 190 wordsThe US Office of War Information quotes a Swedish newspaper, Svenska Dagbladet, as saying that the Germans are transferring their submarines from ...
Article : 58 wordsTwo more VC's have been awarded to British soldiers for conspicuous gallantry in the Burma and Normandy campaigns. ...
Article : 256 wordsAn RAF sergeant one night last week waved from a box of a Glasgow theatre to his daughter on the stage whom he had not seen since 1940. ...
Article : 158 wordsAmong the German forces offering slight resistance to the American armoured drive on Paris is the "Stomach" battalion. ...
Article : 56 wordsLike much of the world, England would be hungry for the next four years, said the head of the British Food Mission, Mr. W. Bankes Amery, at a legacy ...
Article : 60 wordsThe late Corporal Ron Riley, of Adelaide, who was killed accidentally on active service some time ago, was beloved by all members of the ...
Article : 131 wordsThe New Jersey police are seeking the driver of a hit-and-run speedboat. The boat failed to stop after striking and killing Mrs. Virginia Moroney, 25, ...
Article : 43 wordsA 17-year-old New York youth became a skilful safecracker and head of a gang, by practising on a safe in his parents' home, according to ...
Article : 147 wordsAmericans are drinking more beer than ever. To meet this gargantuan thirst, the nation's brewers are turning out 77 ...
Article : 52 wordsThe Canadian corvette Regina has been lost. The sinking occurred when the Regina went to the assistance of a merchant ship in difficulties in invasion ...
Article : 30 wordsThe grass-thatched chapel of an American station hospital at Nadzab, decorated with flowers given by sisters of an Australian Army general ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 154 wordsBecause 20,000 British school teachers are in the Services scattered on all fronts and their simultaneous demobolisation is impossible, ...
Article : 82 wordsAs a reward for 23 years faithful service, Frank 'Sturtevants, 44-year-old chauffeur, has been left 100.000 dollars (£A31,000) by William Clifford Smith, ...
Article : 43 wordsLieutenant-General Wainwright, who commanded the United States troops in the Philippines after the departure of General MacArthur, and now a prisoner of war, told a Red Cross interviewer that camp conditions in Formosa were as good as could be reasonably expected. ...
Article : 184 wordsToo much was probably being written about the war, said a leading Melbourne bookseller and publisher last week. ...
Article : 156 wordsIt is officially stated at Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force that Lieutenant-General Bradley's appointment as commander of ...
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Army News (Darwin, NT : 1941 - 1946), Wed 23 Aug 1944, Page 3
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