SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, Oct. 11.—The greatest Allied air blitz of the war in the SW Pacific was carried out on Friday and yesterday against Rabaul, which was subjected to 2 terrific raids during which 100 tons of demolition and incendiary bombs were dropped on wharves, ...
Article : 1,708 wordsSOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINEA, Oct. 10.—Pilots of the Allied bombers which early yesterday morning delivered probably the greatest air ...
Article : 1,334 wordsSOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, Oct. 11.—The Commander-in-Chief in the SW Pacific Area (General Douglas MacArthur) was recently ...
Article : 166 wordsWASHINGTON, Oct. 10.—A Navy Department communique today announced that American bombers had attacked Japanese warships backing ...
Article : 473 wordsLONDON, Oct. 11.—Over 100 US bombers supported by nearly 500 Allied fighters on Friday morning carried out the heaviest daylight raid ...
Article : 783 wordsLONDON, Oct. 11.—British American, Canadian, Australian and South African pilots participated in a big blitz in the Western Desert ...
Article : 637 wordsLONDON, Oct. 11.—On the 50th day of the Bottle of Stalingrad the German attackers have been fought to at least a temporary standstill. "Red Star" says that although the fighting continues fiercely German pressure has somewhat weakened, owing to their enormous losses in first ...
Article : 961 wordsSOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINEA, Oct. 10.—arching along a muddy track out of the dense jungled slopes of the Owen Stanley Range, Allied ...
Article : 799 wordsWASHINGTON, Oct. 10.—A heavy air attack on the Japanese-occupied Island of Kiska in the western Aleutians is described in the following ...
Article : 242 wordsLONDON, Oct. 11—In a message from a United Nations' base in West Africa a correspondent of Reuters says that nearly a dozen Allied ships ...
Article : 197 wordsLONDON, Oct. 10.—The Moscow radio states that Stalin has issued a decree creating a single military command and abolishing the system of ...
Article : 354 wordsSOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINEA, Oct. 10.—Australian advanced patrols, who are now on the northern side of the Owen Stanley Range only ...
Article : 357 wordsNEW YORK, Oct. 11.—Only the spearheads of the opposing sides have so far made contact in the Pacific, declares Hanson Baldwin, military ...
Article : 507 wordsLONDON, Oct. 11.—There was a short air raid alert in London early yesterday morning after a single enemy raider had been observed over ...
Article : 153 wordsWASHINGTON, Oct. 10.—The Secretary of the Navy (Col Frank Knox) on his arrival at Sanjuan (Porto Rico) from Brazil told the ...
Article : 210 wordsWASHINGTON, Oct. 11.—The Chilean Ambassador (Senor Don Rodolfo Michels) has protested to President Roosevelt against the ...
Article : 235 wordsNEW YORK, Oct. 10.—There Is nothing flimsy about the captured Japanese material in the Solomons, according to the United Press ...
Article : 175 wordsA special communique issued in Moscow yesterday reviewed the results of last month's Soviet offensive at Sinyavino (south-east of ...
Article : 692 wordsLONDON, Oct. 11.—After another week in which newspapers and radio stations in Russia and also Russian news sheets abroad have continued ...
Article : 154 wordsNEW YORK, Oct. 11.—Byron Darnton, war correspondent of the "New York Times" somewhere in New Guinea, says that the big raids ...
Article : 149 wordsLONDON, Oct. 10.—The Admiralty announces that His Majesty's anti-aircraft-cruiser Coventry has been sunk. ...
Article : 19 wordsLONDON. Oct. 11.—It is authoritatively stated that the German claim to have sunk over 1,000,000 tons of shipping in September is very ...
Article : 27 wordsLONDON, Oct. 11.—Canadian military headquarters announce that more Canadian troops have arrived in Britain. These include ...
Article : 42 wordsLONDON, Oct. 11.—Vichy radio states that violent fighting is continuing in Madagascar with the British slowly advancing south of ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Mon 12 Oct 1942, Page 3
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