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Article : 224 wordsMELBOURNE, June 5.—Two enemy submarines were sunk and a third probably sunk yesterday by Australian and Dutch reconnaissance squadrons which located them on the surface in widely separated localities off the east coast of Australia. ...
Article : 336 wordsCHUNGKING. June 5.—Although there was little fresh news today of the fighting in Eastern China, reports indicated that the enemy was ...
Article : 291 wordsNEW DELHI, June 5.—A military spokesman announced today that the largest convoy of reinforcements ever to reach India, and probably ...
Article : 137 wordsLONDON, June 5.—A communique issued today from British GHQ in Cairo on the battle in Libya was as follows: "British and Indian columns ...
Article : 561 wordsLONDON, June 5.—The Air Ministry states that it was clear and cloudless when the RAF bombers attacked Bremen on Wednesday ...
Article : 598 wordsLONDON, June 5.—Further details of the raid carried out successfully by British special service troops on the French coast in the early ...
Article : 540 wordsNEW DELHI, June 5.—A military spokesman said today that the Japanese in Burma had reached Homalin on the Upper Chindwin 60 miles ...
Article : 145 wordsSYDNEY, June 5.—Australian and American naval officers are now inclined to the opinion that the Japanese submarine raised from the ...
Article : 610 wordsNEW DELHI, June 5.—A Government spokesman drew heckling when he told a Press conference today that some of the American Technical ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 203 wordsCHUNGKING, June 5.—Lt-General Stilwell, of the US army, who commanded the Chinese forces in the Burma campaign. and ...
Article : 201 wordsWASHINGTON, June 5.—Details of the Japanese air attack on Dutch Harbour in the Aleutian Islands on Wednesday are contained in the ...
Article : 228 wordsFlight-Lieut Winckel, pilot of a plane which destroyed one of the Japanese submarines, is an unassuming, blue-eyed and blond, 6ft ...
Article : 602 wordsWhen an Australian freighter reached port this morning some strange aspects of her encounter with a submarine on the previous ...
Article : 521 wordsWASHINGTON, June 5.—President Roosevelt at his Press conference today said the United States had received reports Japan was ...
Article : 106 wordsLONDON, June 5.—Activity along the Russian front yesterday was confined to patrolling and local raids, but the German radio ...
Article : 260 wordsWASHINGTON, June 5.—Addressing a crowded house in the Senate; yesterday by special invitation, President Quezon of the Philippines said: ...
Article : 151 wordsLONDON, June 5.—After a night spent in attacking enemy aerodromes and aircraft and providing air support for the Commando ...
Article : 232 wordsLONDON, June 5.—Referring to the appointment of Mr S. M. Bruce as the accredited representative of the Australian Government in the ...
Article : 349 wordsLONDON, June 5.—Tokio official radio today broadcast a report from Imperial Headquarters that Japanese submarine units in a surprise ...
Article : 131 wordsLONDON. June 5.—A Rome communique today stated: "A British counter-offensive in North Africa was repulsed. Considerable losses ...
Article : 136 wordsWASHINGTON, June 3.—The Navy has completed plans to swear into service "Avengers of Pearl Harbour" in a special ceremony next ...
Article : 54 wordsLONDON, June 5.—Of a score of pilots who have returned to their bases in Libya after being posted missing all but 2 reappeared within ...
Article : 305 wordsNEW YORK, June 5.—The Tokio official radio today quoted Imperial Headquarters as stating that a flotilla of special submarines Invaded ...
Article : 42 wordsSOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, June 5.—Low-level attacks were made by a small force of Allied aircraft which raided Rabaul on ...
Article : 156 wordsLONDON, June 6.—The Australian Air Force nightfighter squadron has brought down its second raider. Observer-Sgt Ronald Charles ...
Article : 119 wordsNEW YORK, June 5.—The Tokio official radio yesterday quoted the "Diplomatic Review" as asserting that Japan was conforming to the ...
Article : 49 wordsMELBOURNE, June 5.—Further heavy attacks by Allied aircraft against the Japanese bases at Koepang in Timor and Rabaul in New ...
Article : 307 wordsCANBERRA, June 5.—Advice has been received from RAAF headquarters in the Middle East that an Australian pilot-officer from Rose ...
Article : 334 wordsMELBOURNE, June 5.—A statement issued from the Navy Department today adds the names of Engineroom-Artificer W. G. Gordon, ...
Article : 78 wordsLONDON, June. 5.—Hitler, who flew to Finland, yesterday presented Field Marshal Mannerheim, the Finnish commander-in-chief, with the Grand Cross of the German ...
Article : 99 wordsLONDON, June 5.—An Air Ministry communique today stated that a single enemy plane last night bombed a coastal town in East ...
Article : 109 wordsMELBOURNE, June 5.—"The sinkings of enemy submarines in Australian waters during the last few days represents a great success ...
Article : 293 wordsSOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, June 5.—Koepang aerodrome was bombed by RAAF planes on Wednesday night in the fifth attack on ...
Article : 276 wordsNEW YORK. June 4.—A report from Burbank, California, stated the Boeing flying fortresses are rolling off the Vega Aircraft Co's ...
Article : 108 wordsLONDON, June 5.—The German radio broadcast that all the weapons used in the fatal attack on Herr Reinhard Heydrich, Gestapo ...
Article : 104 wordsBUENOS AIRES, June 3.—The Argentine Government has retracted its recent order forbidding the Press from printing or commenting on ...
Article : 103 wordsLONDON, June 4.—It is clear from reports reaching London from German occupied countries that workers in these countries who are cajoled ...
Article : 147 wordsWASHINGTON, June 4.—The Secretary of War (Mr H. L. Stimson) stated at a Press conference that a special War Department ...
Article : 125 wordsWASHINGTON, June 4.—The War Department has nominated Brigadier-General Idwal Edwards, Assistant Chief of Staff, to be in ...
Article : 110 wordsWASHINGTON, June 4.—The Senate unanimously and without debate completed the Congressional action for declarations of war against ...
Article : 37 wordsWASHINGTON, June 2.—The Navy revealed today that it has developed a liquid-cooled aircraft motor and awarded a contract for ...
Article : 63 wordsNEW YORK, June 4.—Ten draftees from Galesburg, Illinois, appeared before the Draft Board for induction and 9 were accepted but the ...
Article : 56 wordsWASHINGTON, June 5.—The Navy Department has announced the loss in the Atlantic of the small naval patrol ship Cythera. ...
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