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The wars & local soldiers, 1944

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News Of Our Soldiers

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 28 January 1944 · page 2

Private Phil, Walsh is spending his leave in Wingham. LAC John Healey, of Wingham, is a patient in the District Hospital,…

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The War

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 29 January 1944 · page 2

Messages from both Axis and Allied sources indicate that the battle for Rome is entering its final and decisive stage. Rome Radio claims…

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Women's War Effort

The Northern Champion · Saturday 29 January 1944 · page 1

Increasingly effective mobilisation of womanpower for war production, commerce and the Services is shown in latest official figures released by the…

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War News. London

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 29 January 1944 · page 2

British planes severely damaged at least 22 ships in the Aegean Sea yesterday, says an R.A.F. Middle East communique. Two ships were sunk…

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The War Russians Widen Salient

The Northern Champion · Saturday 29 January 1944 · page 2

London, Jan 26 (AAP): Strong Russian forces, continuing to widen and deepan the salient they have driven into the German "defence box" south…

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Post-War Works £200,000,000 Programme to Be Planned

The Northern Champion · Saturday 29 January 1944 · page 2

A great programme of public works to be carried out in the two years lifter the war has been recommended to the Commonwealth Government by…

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Red Cross Notes Craft Work for Soldiers

The Northern Champion · Saturday 29 January 1944 · page 3

Miss Francis Wade, the [?] Australian Red [?] Department [?] jsut [?] seven weeks [?] of…

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War in Pacific

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 1 February 1944 · page 1

One of the greatest U.S. task forces ever assembled in the Pacific has attacked atolls in the Jap Marshalls, a Navy communique states…

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Late War News

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 1 February 1944 · page 2

Australian raiding parties, in a spectacular advance on Sunday, occupied a chain of Jap-held villages closer to Bogadjim than any other…

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Other War News

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 1 February 1944 · page 1

Nearly 2000 Allied four-engined bombers dropped more than 5000 tons of bombs on Germany in the 40 hours ended at midday on…

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The War. Allied Offensive in Italy

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Tuesday 1 February 1944 · page 3

London: An admission that the Allies have launched a powerful attack north and north-east from the…

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War News in Brief Reds Smash Forward

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 1 February 1944 · page 1

Red Army forces at the week-end made important gains in their drive to the Baltic States. They captured Chudovo, fortified…

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Soldier Didn't Want Release

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 1 February 1944 · page 2

When a soldier from a town near Windsor was requested to sign release papers, and whose father had applied for his release, he…

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News Of Our Soldiers

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Tuesday 1 February 1944 · page 2

Private Jim Kelly, who has been at Darwin for something like two years has been spending leave in Wingham accompanied by his wife who is a…

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War Talk

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 2 February 1944 · page 3

London reports that the New Delhi correspondent of the Associated Press of America says that fighting on the 500-mile front along the Burma…

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The War Russians Near Estonia

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 2 February 1944 · page 2

London, Monday (AAP): The Red Army is now only 15 miles from the Estonian border. Planes are heavily blasting the only railway and road…

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Red Fleet Ready for Baltic War. London

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 2 February 1944 · page 2

Bottled up for 2½ years, a strong Russian Fleet will soon leave Kronstadt (near Leningrad) to begin naval warfare in the Baltic, particularly…

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War News. Terrific Climax to Month of Blitz at Rabaul

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 2 February 1944 · page 2

Sixty-three more Jap planes were either destroyed or damaged ut Rabaul on Friday, making a total of 446 planes shot out of action at Rabaul…

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Soldiers, Good and True

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 2 February 1944 · page 3

Agriculture is a constructive agency, even during wartime. It never destroys. It produces the food that sustains…

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Late War News

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 4 February 1944 · page 2

American troops invading the Marshalls have captured Roi Island, and its great airfield, from which every island in the group can be…

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