Air War Goes on Attack By U.S. Liberators
LONDON. Wednesday: A strong force of American, Liberators to-day attacked Germany’s two most important bill-bearing…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1944
701 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 6 of 36
Report From China Jap Morale Sagging: Soldiers Tired of War
In “The Christian Science Monitor” (regarded as one of the most reliable of newspapers), Guenther Stein writes from “On the North…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Patriotic and War Fund
The Goulburn and District Patriotic and War Fund Committee, which met on Wednesday night last, received a letter from…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →When Our Fighting Men Return Soldiers Think of “The Good Old Days”
Recently there was quite a todo in the papers over an interview a correspondent had with some British troops in North Africa. In…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →P.O.W.: Broadcast Message From Yass Soldier
On Thursday night a broadcast message by a Yass soldier was broadcast from Singapore. It was from Gunner V. M…
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The classification committee appointed under the War Service Land Settlement Act will be meeting at the Lands Office at…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday: In a casualty list issued to-day, Lance. Corporal J. R. Sillis, Inf., Bungendore, is reported wounded in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Air War Goes on Good Results Reported
LONDON, Monday: It is officially announced that the Allied Expeditionary Air Force continued its offensive…
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HOBART: The Tasmanian Government has decided to encourage the erection of community halls and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War In The Pacific 14 Jap. Ships Go Down Tokyo Says Marianas Attack Was "Astonishing" Japanese Guam Tale Is Denied
WASHINGTON, Tuesday: The Secretary of the Navy, Colonel Knox, to-day described Axis radio reports of a continuing American attack on Guam as mis-statements for propaganda purposes, intended…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Anzac Day to Be a Close Holiday
Closing of hotel bars and wine saloons, a ban on horse racing and sporting events, and restriction on the opening of theatres and picture…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Value of Penicillin in War
LONDON: Penicillin has been given to soldiers wounded in North Africa and Sicily by Professor N. W. Florey and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Horrors of War Planes Over Town
Did you hear the planes (who didn’t) which were over the town the other day? They came screaming and so low I was sure they…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Smashing War Factories
One by one the great industrial centres of Nazi Germany are being systematically smashed by the combined efforts of the R.A.F. and American Army Air Force. By night great formations of bombers leave Britain, giving…
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SYDNEY, Monday: The first batch of young mines called up for military service left Wollongong by train this morning for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Strange Kinds of Landing Craft Amphibious War As It Is Fought In These Modern Times
Since the black days of 1940, when Hitler was making ready to invade England, tremendous advances have been made in the designing of all kinds of craft for amphibious warfare…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Soldiers’ Graves Crosses Marked “A.M.F.” Protest Originated at Yass
It was disclco[?]ed at the meeting of the Yass sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers’ League on Saturday night it had been…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →WHEN DlSCHARGED Soldiers and Servicewomen Complaint of Treatment
Complaint of the alleged treatment of discharged soldiers and service women was voiced at the meeting of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →First Objective Of Air War Nearly Attained
LONDON, Monday: The British and American Air forces are well on the way towards their achievement of their first objective—the over whelming of German air resistance, declared the Parliamentary Secretary for the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Hazardous Task Of A.I.F. "Sailors" One Of The Strangest War Fleets Seen In Action
Defeat of the Japanese on the northern coast of New Guinea is bringing to a close a chapter in the history of one of the world's strangest war fleets which, since December 1942, has plied dangerous New Guinea…
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