LONDON, July 3.—"The American troops went over to the attack at 5.30 o'clock this morning, pushing down the west coast from the base of the Cherbourg peninsula," stated a United States broadcaster this morning. "Drenching rain fell during the night and our infantry were again ...
Article : 552 wordsLONDON, July 3.—The Allied' armies in Italy continue to make good progress on all sectors of the front. In its drive up the west coast ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 590 wordsNEW YORK, July 2.—Today's Chungking communique states: "Japanese planes rained incendiaries on Hengyang but the defenders are ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 290 wordsLONDON, July 3.—Flying bombs were reported over southern England continuously last night and they were still coming over this ...
Article : 323 wordsLONDON, July 3.—In what is described as one of the swiftest advances of the war, Red Army forces have bypassed Minsk, capital of White Russia, to the north and south and have cut the two German escape routes behind the City. Troops of the Third and First White Russian fronts are now ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 507 wordsLONDON, July 3.—Allied bomber aircraft operating every night but one last month over Germany and occupied territory dropped a record ...
Article : 527 wordsWASHINGTON, July 2.—The Navy has announced further advances on the entire Saipan Island front, ranging from 500 yards to a ...
Article : 477 wordsLONDON, July 3.—"General von Bosch's armies on the White Russian front, after losing 195,930 men in the first week of the Red Army's ...
Article : 316 wordsLONDON, July 3.—Official sources reveal that there are 11 enemy divisions in the Tilly-Caen area—five S ordinary divisions, two SS panzer ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 138 wordsLONDON, July 3.—"Upwards of 750 Flying Fortresses and Liberators yesterday attacked the railway yards at Rakos, on the north-east edge of ...
Article : 113 wordsLONDON, July 3.—Aircraft of the RAF Transport Command have flown the first complete "forward staging post" to the front line in ...
Article : 83 wordsNEW YORK, July 3.—From China the Associated Press reports that the US Vice-President (Mr Wallace) left for home today after a visit to the ...
Article : 127 wordsSOMEWHERE IN SW PACIFIC AREA, July 2.—Japanese plane losses in the SW Pacific area in June were seven to one of ours. The ...
Article : 128 wordsLONDON, July 3.—The British United Press correspondent in Normandy states: "For a few minutes yesterday evening, the front was ...
Article : 111 wordsLONDON, July 3.--"Forming up with them in a wood north-east of Tilly and marching with them to the starting point in darkness I have ...
Article : 471 wordsLONDON, July 3.—The 65th communique issued by Supreme Allied HQ this morning was as follows: "Our Odon River bridgehead was ...
Article : 252 wordsLONDON, July 3.—The Mediterranian Allied Air Force during June destroyed 480 German planes over Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, ...
Article : 67 wordsLONDON, July 3.—Last night Berlin radio, reporting a broadcast by the Prime Minister of Finland (Prof Linkomies) to the Finns, ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 120 wordsThe new U5 B-29 Super-Fortress bomber which was used in the recent in the attack on Japan. Two of these huge four-motored bombers are seen in formation with a B-17G Flying Fortress (top left) which is only two-thirds as large as the super-bombers. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 50 wordsLONDON, July 3.—In an order-of-the-day issued yesterday, Marshal Stalin said that troops of the Third White Russian Front captured ...
Article : 195 wordsLONDON, July 3.—"The fact that for 27 days a mass of Allied ships of every description has lain off the Normandy beaches, comprising a ...
Article : 139 wordsNEW YORK, July 2.—The Washington bureau of the "New York Times" states: "The statement by the Secretary of the Navy (Mr ...
Article : 212 wordsLONDON, July 3.—"British troops yesterday were patrolling south of the Odon River in the area of Evrecy and Esquay, but the Germans were ...
Article : 142 wordsWASHINGTON, July 3.—The Associated Press states that there is a growing possibility that, contrary to history's pattern, this war may not ...
Article : 139 wordsLONDON, July 3.—Asked if during the occupation there was much Inter-marriage with the Germans, the Mayor of Cherbourg, M. Renault, ...
Article : 120 wordsLONDON, July 3.—A British United Press report from Stockholm states that the general strike at Copenhagen has ended after an ...
Article : 306 wordsCOLOMBO, July 3.—It is known that the Japanese have transported many thousands of reinforcements to Burma via the railway from Siam, ...
Article : 182 wordsLONDON, July 3.—"Thousands of Germans who have lost touch with their units and hidden in the forest have met their fate at the hands of ...
Article : 98 wordsLONDON, July 3.—Reuters correspondent with the United States forces in Cherbourg last night said: "Fighting French officials in the ...
Article : 65 wordsLONDON, July 3.—The continuation of the Allied air attack on French railway targets to stem the movement of reserves is the result ...
Article : 410 wordsNEW YORK, July 2.—The United States Treasury's Director of Monetary Research (Dr Harry White) told a Press conference at ...
Article : 381 wordsLONDON, July 3.—It was officially announced yesterday that the Fifth Army captured Cecina (on the west coast of Italy. 30 miles south of ...
Article : 117 wordsLONDON, July 3.—In a dispatch from Moscow last night the British United Press correspondent described the terrible massacre when the ...
Article : 126 wordsLONDON, July 2.—Reuters correspondent with the Fifth Army states that the Germans on Thursday killed 50 Italian civilians and 10 ...
Article : 115 wordsKANDY (Ceylon), July 3.—To-day's South-East Asia Command communique was as follows: "On the night of June 29 a raiding party ...
Article : 87 wordsLONDON, July 3.—Hitler's speech at the funeral of General Diet, commander of the German troops on the Arctic front who was recently killed ...
Article : 91 wordsExcept where otherwise designated, the overseas intelligence published in '"The West Australian" is transmitted to Australia by the Australian Associated Press ...
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