LONDON, Aug 17.—The silence from Allied quarters, official or unifficial, regarding the apparent dramatic advance by American armoured forces in the direction of Paris was broken today when Third Army HQ announced that the Allies had captured Orleans this afternoon ...
Article : 563 wordsLONDON, Aug 17.—The Allies in Normandy are administering a sound defeat to the German Seventh Army but it can not yet be described as ...
Article : 220 wordsLONDON, Aug 17.—Mediterranean HQ, in a special communique this afternoon, said: "The Franco-Americans' swift advance inland in southern France continues. Numerous additional towns and villages have been taken. All elements of the beachhead forces have been ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 457 wordsLONDON, Aug 17.—"The German retreat in Normandy is no longer being conducted according to plan. It is now just 'get out-if you can,'" ...
Article : 329 wordsLONDON, Aug 17.—Reuters correspondent at Allied HQ in Italy reported that a second wave of airborne infantry landed from ...
Article : 262 wordsLONDON, Aug 17.—"Mussolini's Republican Blackshirts for the first time are reported to be engaging Italian Patriots on the northern ...
Article : 288 wordsLONDON, Aug 17.—Moscow correspondents agree that the Germans are hitting back hard from the Baltic to the Carpathians in an all-out ...
Article : 297 wordsLONDON, Aug 17.—Reuters correspondent with the British in Normandy says a senior staff officer said: "The next 10 days will be ...
Article : 237 wordsLONDON, Aug 17.—Renter correspondent at Allied HQ in Italy states: 'The Allied air forces have complete mastery of the sky over the ...
Article : 118 wordsLONDON, Aug 17.—Supreme Allied HQ issued the following communique (No 131) at 9 am today: "Allied troops made further gains in ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 278 wordsCHUNGKING, Aug 17.—The United Press states: "Chinese troops made new gains in a furious assault on the Japanese in Hengyang. ...
Article : 111 wordsLONDON, Aug 17.—Flying bombs have come over southern England, including the London area, at short intervals since early morning, ...
Article : 457 wordsLONDON, Aug 17.—The communique issued in Moscow late last night was as follows: "The Russians today north-west and north of ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 273 wordsLONDON, Aug 17.—Last night the German Newsagency listed five bridgeheads which it said the Allies hold along a 35 to 40 miles stretch ...
Article : 202 wordsLONDON, Aug 17.—The French forces landing as part of the new Allied expeditonary army in southern France are under the command of ...
Article : 207 wordsKANDY (Ceylon), Aug 17.—The last organised fighting Japanese force has been expelled from Manipur. The main body of the 14th ...
Article : 68 wordsThe Rue aux Fevres in Lisieux, a 12th century town on the main railway from Caen to Paris. Reported to be Marshal Rommel's head quarters, Lisieux is on the escape route for the German armies struggling to pass through the Falaise gap. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 47 wordsLONDON, Aug 17.—The BUP correspondent in Normandy, quoting a high spokesman at British HQ. says: "Armoured cars are pushing ...
Article : 163 wordsCHUNGKING, Aug 17.—The Associated Press says that Chinese forces supported by American planes have launched a large-scale assault ...
Article : 103 wordsLONDON, Aug 17.—"Throughout the night and since dawn yesterday fresh French and American troops and supplies have been pouring into ...
Article : 132 wordsLONDON, Aug 17.—"The last march to Falaise was a feat of endurance by the infantry, who in pitch darkness and driving rain ...
Article : 171 wordsNEW YORK, Aug 16.—The Stockholm correspondent of the "New York Times" states: "'Fighting has broken out throughout Denmark as ...
Article : 79 wordsLONDON, Aug 17.—"The Battle of the. Gap has become a battle of wits between pilots of the Tactical Air Force and German troops," states ...
Article : 213 wordsLONDON, Aug 17.—The German Overseas Newsagency's military spokesman today said: "Soviet forces supported by many squadrons of ...
Article : 137 wordsLONDON, Aug 17.—The Air Ministry's communique today stated: "Bomber Command last ht dispatched nearly 1,200 planes. The ...
Article : 222 wordsLONDON, Aug 17.—"Maintaining the fierce momentum of their opening drive the Americans an the right flank of the bridgehead today drove ...
Article : 184 wordsLONDON, Aug 17.—The Luftwaffe sent up a flight of rocket-propelled ME163 fighters to make a tentative stab at the Eighth Air Force ...
Article : 99 wordsLONDON, Aug 17.—The German Newsagency stated today: "The German command in Paris has for the first time appealed to the population ...
Article : 49 wordsLONDON, Aug 17.—Over 500 enemy tanks have been destroyed or damaged from the air and on land from D Day to July 31, states a ...
Article : 109 wordsLONDON, Aug 17.—Advanced Allied HQ in the Mediterranean and South France issued the following communique today: "The ...
Article : 211 wordsLONDON, Aug 17.—An Allied combat group which landed on Levant land, off the south of France, found German dummy guns ...
Article : 95 wordsLONDON, Aug 17.—The versatile tank landing-ships of the British and American navies have turned into railway ferries and are delivering ...
Article : 77 wordsWASHINGTON, Aug 16.—The United States has temporarily frozen all Argentine gold stocks held here. Argentina some time ago withdrew ...
Article : 182 wordsLONDON, Aug 17.—The Germans are trying to protect their columns retreating east of Falaise from air attack by placing refugees among ...
Article : 48 wordsLONDON, Aug 17.—The first official communique from the head- quarters of General Koenig (commending the French Forces in the ...
Article : 111 wordsNEW YORK, Aug 17.—The United Press says that Admiral Nimitz, after an inspection of the recaptured base of Guam, told ...
Article : 382 wordsLONDON, Aug 17.—The "secret weapon," the gyroscopic gunsight, is being used with great success by RAF fighter pilots. It is almost uncanny ...
Article : 167 wordsWASHINGTON, Aug 17.—President Roosevelt on his return from the Pacific announced that the Allies would occupy Germany and Japan ...
Article : 332 wordsLONDON, Aug 17.—Tens of thousands of French refugees herded by the Germans from their homes beyond Vire and Mortain, from the ...
Article : 185 wordsLONDON, Aug 17.—The Germans are withdrawing their main defences in Greece and going right back to the Olympus line where our men ...
Article : 101 wordsLONDON, Aug 17.—Reconnaissance now shows that two ships have been sunk in Brest harbour by RAF Bomber Command during recent ...
Article : 66 wordsCHUNGKING, Aug 17.—The Chinese Minister for War (Mr Hoying-chin), in a broadcast yesterday, declared: "According to our ...
Article : 47 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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