HONOLULU, June 13.—Commander Arnold, leader of a bombing group in the Battle of Midway, revealed yesterday that 4 Japanese ...
Article : 340 wordsDARWIN, June 14.—Twenty-seven Japanese bombers escorted by 12 to 15 Zero fighters raided Darwin yesterday. The damage done was negligible. This was the first raid Darwin had for 7 weeks. Apart from the first ...
Article : 359 wordsLONDON, June 14.—Following the fall of Bir Hakheim (the Allied fortress 45 miles south-west of Tobruk) on Wednesday night Marshal Rommel launched a new attempt to reach the Libyan coast, and the battle flared up with violence as great as ever. ...
Article : 811 wordsHONOLULU, June 13.—Clark Lee, Associated press correspondent, says that the Coral Sea battle was the first naval battle in history in ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 1,287 wordsCHUNGKING, June 14.—After holding out against fierce Japanese onslaughts for more than a week, Chuhsien, the important centre in ...
Article : 179 wordsLONDON, June 14.—Latest reports from Russia tell of fighting of extreme violence on the Kharkov front, where the Germans during the week launched a new offensive, and at Sebastopol, where the Axis assault continues with unabated intensity. In both areas the enemy ...
Article : 428 wordsLONDON, June 14.—Owing to unfavourable weather over the Continent, since June 8 Bomber Command operations have been confined to ...
Article : 275 wordsWASHINGTON, June 13.—The Navy Department announced yesterday that the US aircraft-carrier Lexington (33,000 tons) was sunk ...
Article : 1,021 wordsMELBOURNE, June 14.—In their raid on Darwin yesterday, the first since April 27, the Japanese attacked an aerodrome. The Allied ...
Article : 489 wordsWASHINGTON, June 13.—The War Department announced yesterday that Major-General Clarence L. Tinker, commander of the Hawaiian ...
Article : 179 wordsLONDON, June 13.—The Helsinkl correspondent of the Stockholm newspaper "Allehanda" states that between 10,000 and 20,000 British ...
Article : 35 wordsAt Sebastopol the defenders are trading, blow for blow although the enemy pressure is as great as ever. The Russian artillery has been very ...
Article : 440 wordsLONDON, June 14.—Slight enemy activity was reported last night over the south and south-west coast of England. Bombs were dropped on ...
Article : 150 wordsLONDON, June 13.—Reuters correspondent at Ankara reported that United States bombers raided the Rumanian coast and 3 made forced ...
Article : 187 wordsLONDON, June 14.—Pilots of the Australian Air Force, the RAF, and the South African Air Force from 3 am until dusk on Friday ceaselessly ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 347 wordsNEW YORK, June 14.—Captain Frederick Sherman, who commanded the Lexington, the US aircraft-carrier lost in the Battle of ...
Article : 603 wordsLONDON, June 14.—Hard on the Anglo-Russian announcement of the creation of a Second Front in 1942 comes the news that a large ...
Article : 285 wordsWASHINGTON, June 14.—The Navy announced yesterday that a medium-sized United States merchantman had been torpedoed and ...
Article : 139 wordsThe following special statement with reference to the fall of the desert fortress of Bir Hakheim (45 miles south-west of Tobruk) after a ...
Article : 729 wordsWASHINGTON, June 13.—The Navy Department announced last night that the Japanese had landed in the Aleutian Islands, the island ...
Article : 272 wordsLONDON, June 14.—A message from Lourenco Marques (Portuguese East Africa) says that it now appears that 5 ships that it now appears that 5 ships may have been ...
Article : 113 words"Operations in the Lake Ilmen and Volkhov region and beyond appear to be gaining scope, on the Russian initiative," the Stockholm ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 327 wordsLONDON, June 14.—Yesterday the Berlin High Command announced: "Our tank army in North Africa has started a northward drive after the ...
Article : 146 wordsSYDNEY, June 14.—Coastal batteries at Newcastle opened fire to-night while searchlights were trained on the sea outside the Heads. Heavy ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Mon 15 Jun 1942, Page 3
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