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The wars & local soldiers, 1951

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"Risk War and Bomb China"

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 27 June 1951 · page 5

Lieut.-Gen. A. Wedemeyer, former U. S. Army…

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War Graves Dedication

Daily Examiner · Friday 29 June 1951 · page 5

Australian Diggers resting on their reversed arms at the dedication of the British War Cemetery at Yokohama, Japan. Representatives from Tokio Missions unveiled memorial crosses to Commonwealth dead. The monument…

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Manus War Test Field

Daily Examiner · Friday 29 June 1951 · page 4

Manus Island is to be used as a tropical testing ground for secret weapons. The Army is expected to use it…

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Red Cross Comforts For Soldiers In Korea

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 29 June 1951 · page 2

Since September last year, the Australian Red Cross has sent 57 tons of comforts, including 410,000 cigarettes, to sick…

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Strengthen Economy For War Strain

Daily Examiner · Saturday 30 June 1951 · page 3

CANBERRA, Fri.--The Prime Minister, Mr. Menzies, announced to-day that Six States had now agreed to proposals…

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Thought Another War Had Started

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 3 July 1951 · page 1

DARWIN, Mon. -- Believing another world war had started and Australia was being bombed again, 200 Arnhem Land…

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Five Soldiers Killed In Plane Crash

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 3 July 1951 · page 4

FORT DIX, New Jersey, Mon. (A.A P.).--Five soldier's were killed and another 20 injured yesterday when a C47 transport…

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Soviet Diamonds Diverted To War Production

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 4 July 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tues.--Russia suddenly stopped her flow of diamonds on world markets recently, and thereby indicated…

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Parliamentarians Told "Enlist For Korea"

Daily Examiner · Thursday 5 July 1951 · page 5

Mr Graham (Lib., N.S.W.) told the House of…

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To Direct Cold War

Daily Examiner · Friday 6 July 1951 · page 3

Mr Gordon Gray, former U.S. Army secretary, has been appointed head of a special board to direct the…

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Grave Danger of Major War

Daily Examiner · Saturday 7 July 1951 · page 1

CANBERRA, Fri.-- The Australian Government, armed with the most secret high level information, believed there was a grave danger of a major war, the…

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Worst Features Of War-Time Regimentation

Daily Examiner · Saturday 7 July 1951 · page 1

CANBERRA, Fri.-- The Defence Preparations Bill contained the worst features of wartime regimentation, the…

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War Goes on

Daily Examiner · Monday 9 July 1951 · page 1

Although cease fire terms are being discussed at Kaesong, the war in Korea goes on elsewhere. This picture shows United States marines moving forward to occupy new positions in hills cleared of the enemy by intense artillery and mortar fire…

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State Of War With Germany Ended

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 10 July 1951 · page 1

CANBERRA, Monday.--Australia ended the state of war with Germany at noon to-day. The Minister for…

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Welcome Home From Korea

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 11 July 1951 · page 3

AT the South Grafton Council Chambers last night, a representative gathering tendered a public welcome home…

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War Of Revenge Impossible Says Mr. Dulles

Daily Examiner · Friday 13 July 1951 · page 1

WASHINGTON, Thursday (AAP).--The contemplated U.S. security arrangement with Japan would make it…

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Soldier Rest in Korea

Daily Examiner · Saturday 14 July 1951 · page 1

Private A. G. (Happy) Ronan of Woodburn, and Private E. Miche's, of Woodford, Queensland, resting after arranging camouflage nets over the transport park in one of bivouac areas of the Third Battalion Royal Australian Regiment in Korea…

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Aid for Wounded

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 17 July 1951 · page 1

An American soldier (on stretcher in foreground), seriously wounded while serving with United Nations forces in Korea, receives a life-saving transfusion of blood plasma at a forward aid station…

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India And Pakistan Threat Of War Now Greater

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 18 July 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday.--The threat of war between India and Pakistan was greater now than ever before, the High Commissioner for Pakistan in Australia (Mr. Yusuf Haroon) said to-day…

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Soldier Lands On Projecting Roof

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 18 July 1951 · page 1

NEW YORK, Tues. (A.A.P.). --A soldier who jumped from the 33rd storey of the Empire State building yesterday landed…

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