LONDON, Feb 19.—Scottish troops of the First Canadian Army fought their way into the Siegfried line fortress town of Goch yesterday afternoon. Frontline correspondents reporting the breaking of the ...
Article : 841 wordsMELBOURNE, Feb 19.—Australian troops are maintaining aggressive operations in both the northern and south-western sectors of ...
Article : 1,103 wordsLONDON, Feb 19.—British and Indian troops have forced another crossing of the Irrawaddy, this time 35 miles downstream from ...
Article : 772 wordsMANILA, Feb 19.—Seven thousand persons were released, including 800 patients, 100 of whom were Americans and a few British, when ...
Article : 237 wordsGUAM, Feb 19.—United States marines supported by heavy units of the Pacific Fleet have landed on Iwo Jima, the strongly fortified island 750 miles south of Tokio. The Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific area (Admiral ...
Article : 647 wordsLONDON, Feb 19.—Tank and artillery battles of increasing violence are raging on three important sectors of the eastern front—south-east of Stettin, around Marshal Koniev's front across the Oder and south-east of ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 646 wordsMANILA, Feb 19.—Enemy pockets of resistance on Corregidor Island, at the mouth of Manila Bay, are rapidly being cleared by American ...
Article : 278 wordsNEW YORK, Feb 19.—A dispatch from Guam states that Admiral Nimitz announced today that the Navy on Friday and Saturday scored ...
Article : 232 wordsAn announcement from Admiral Nimitz's headquarters states that Yokohama, Japan's leading seaport, shared in the damaging raid by carrier-based planes from an American task force last Friday and Saturday. Built on a wide, unsheltered bay, the port is protected mainly by two long, man-made breakwaters. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 51 wordsLONDON, Feb 18.—Following is the text of a personal message promulgated today by Field Marshal Montgomery to troops under his ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 473 wordsLONDON, Feb 19.—The Exchange Telegraph Agency's correspondent in Moscow in a dispatch yesterday stated: "The most important tank ...
Article : 192 wordsNEW YORK, Feb 18.—The Associated Press reports from Manila: "With the Corregidor clean-up becoming a dirty business of digging ...
Article : 226 wordsLONDON, Feb 19.—Today's Italy communique states: "Patrols moving through thick fog and mist continue active along the Fifth Army front ...
Article : 179 wordsLONDON, Feb 19.—"Thirty-six-years-old General Ivan Danilovich Cherniakovsky, commander of the Third White Russian Front and the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 251 wordsNEW YORK, Feb 18.—In a dispatch from Manila, Frank Weissbiatt, United Press correspondent, states: "Exhaustive records which I ...
Article : 106 wordsLONDON, Feb 19.—"With two Russian tank armies about to strike towards Berlin Marshals Koniev and Zhukov are co-operatlng closely to ...
Article : 380 wordsLONDON, Feb 19.—More than 1,400 guns smashed down their shells on the Siegiried Line at the opening on February 8 of General Crerar's ...
Article : 157 wordsLONDON, Feb 1.—Troops South of Konigsberg yesterday continued the annihilation of the East Prussian enemy garrison and captured a ...
Article : 133 wordsLONDON, Feb 19.—A cheque for £25,000 sterling has been sent to the Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in England by Lord ...
Article : 99 wordsGUAM, Feb 19.—Admiral Nimitz announced that the invasion commanders are: Vice-Admiral Richmond Turner, commanding the ...
Article : 47 wordsLONDON, Feb 19.—The Prime Minister (Mr Churchill) returned to England today. It is revealed that after leaving ...
Article : 40 wordsLONDON, Feb 19.—Swedish refugees arriving in Stockholm from Berlin say that all foreign subject in the German capital have been ...
Article : 49 wordsWASHINGTON, Feb 19.—The War Department communique says India-based Super-Fortresses today bombed Japanese military and ...
Article : 127 wordsWASHINGTON, Feb 19.—The Associated Press reports that Senator H. Styles Bridges is asking the State Department to confirm or deny ...
Article : 263 wordsMANILA, Feb 19.—An Australian priest, Father Francis Cosgrave, received three severe wounds but escaped with his life when the ...
Article : 277 wordsLONDON, Feb 19.—It is officially announced that Lancasters yesterday heavily attacked the communications centre of Wesel (on the ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Tue 20 Feb 1945, Page 5
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