American sea and air forces destroyed more than 300 Japanese planes off Saipan during Saturday's abortive at tack against American amphibious operations on Saipan in the Marianas. ...
Article : 262 wordsDuring last night, British pilots shot down several pilotless planes over Southern England. It is disclosed that one of the favourite current' sports of fighter-bomber pilots is the snooting down of the robots or "doodle-bugs" as the Americans call them. ...
Article : 728 wordsThe Allied stranglehold on the Cherbourg Peninsula has been strengthened by a series of local advances and last night American troops were within five miles of the naval base, following the occupation of Bricquebac with ...
Article : 745 wordsRecommendations that the United Sta'tes sever diplomatic relations with Spain and extend aid to Spanish guerilla armies, permitting them, to ...
Article : 122 wordsAir assaults on Truk, a vital staging base for reinforcing the Marianas, are being pressed home with mounting intensity. In the last seven days Liberators have battled through heavy ground fire and beaten off paclcs ...
Article : 589 wordsdening and strengthening the corridor indicetzd by this [?] which they have driven across Ch[?] ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 159 wordsThe Russians have-extended the breach in the Mannerheiin Line to a width of 30 miles from Muola to the Gulf of Finland, and in their triple advance on Viipuri are beginning to encompass the city and to entrap the Finnish, forces 'remaining on the Karelian ...
Article : 198 wordsEvery detail of the great [?]rbornc operation which won [?] the Allies the first important foothofda in Normandy, was worked out in a Wilt ...
Article : 315 wordsFrench forces have occupied the whole of the island of Elba. The Germans have withdrawn lines north from Perugua, on the italian ...
Article : 341 wordsFromndawn on "D" Day to midnight last night fighter aircraft of the R.A.F. Tactical Air Force and of one group of the A.D.G.B ...
Article : 195 wordsIt was announced by Tokyo radio that Japanese troops completely occupied Changsha in the late afternoon of Sunday, and ...
Article : 160 wordsSenator Vanderburg told the Senate that he deeply regretted the State Department's action in expelling the Finnish Minister (Procope). ...
Article : 144 wordsTo encourage his troops to light Marshal Rommel is telling them that the Allies shoot all prisoners, says the correspondent of the "Daily Mail" ...
Article : 155 wordsThe House Merchant Marine Committee'after an extended investigation into plate fractures in Liberty ships, said that major fractures ...
Article : 79 wordsThe Chungking communique states tha' after six weeks slege Gurkas and Kachina captured the heavily defended, town of Tiangzup, 40 miles to ...
Article : 135 wordsA mass murder of 7,000 'Jewe by the Germans" is alleged in reports reaching London, says the Czechoslo vak State Council. ...
Article : 73 wordsNEW YORK. Monday—The Navy announced that all efforts to recondition the liner Normandie have been abandoned until after the war, ...
Article : 63 wordsCHUNGKING, Tuesday— The Vice-President of the United States (Mr.Wallace) has arrived from Siberia He was met at the aerodrome ...
Article : 34 wordsLONDON, Tuesday—Under reverse lend-lense Britain has given to the United Stntes £500,000,000, stated the Minister for Production ...
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The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), Wed 21 Jun 1944, Page 1
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