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The wars & local soldiers, 1945

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RAISED £473 Schools' War Effort

The North Western Courier · Thursday 11 January 1945 · page 1

Public schools in the Narrabri Inspectorate raised £473 for war purposes during the third term of last year…

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Pacific War Climax More Action Soon LONDON

The North Western Courier · Monday 15 January 1945 · page 1

The "Times'" correspondent says that the rapidity with which MacArthur's forces are progressing on Luzon, suggests the…

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Germans Admit Peril Final Stage of War Warsaw, Cracow Fall to Russians London

The North Western Courier · Thursday 18 January 1945 · page 1

Russians in their greatest offensive, are driving relentlessly through Poland, and are rapidly approaching the German…

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Condemned to Death U.S. Soldiers 'On Spree' LONDON

The North Western Courier · Thursday 18 January 1945 · page 1

Five United States soldiers have been condemned to death as members of a gang of deserters who stole huge quantities of petrol, sold it on…

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Bring War Criminals to Justice London

The North Western Courier · Thursday 1 February 1945 · page 1

"My objective, which is shared by all members of the War Crimes Commission is to carry out duties so that justice, not revenge, will be done to…

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A Phoney War For Atlantic Germans LONDON

The North Western Courier · Thursday 8 February 1945 · page 1

Nearly 100,000 Germans holding out in the French Atlantic ports want to keep alive until Germany is defeated, then return…

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The "Forgotten Front" Vital Part in War ROME

The North Western Courier · Thursday 15 February 1945 · page 7

Allied troops in Italy were preventing a large enemy force from bolstering Hitler's hard pressed troops on the eastern and western…

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The Commonwealth Bank In Post War Reconstruction (To the Editor)

The North Western Courier · Thursday 15 February 1945 · page 6

Sir,—At the termination of this war there will be very little in the productive sphere that the workers of Australia cannot do. Our colossal…

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Miss Bebe Scott Helps War Orphans

The North Western Courier · Thursday 1 March 1945 · page 5

Miss Bebe Scott, well known Radio Star, is the British Orphans' Adoption Society Candidate for the N.S.W. United Charities' Quest for Miss 1945…

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Britain's War Effort Master Bombers

The North Western Courier · Monday 5 March 1945 · page 4

Photographs taken after the recent raids by British Lancasters and Halifaxes on the fortified Rhineland towns of Dueren and…

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"A" Priority Keepit Dam As Major Post War Work Sydney

The North Western Courier · Monday 5 March 1945 · page 2

"In accord with my Government's policy and the recommendations of the Reconstruction and Development…

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The British at War Britain's War Time Story Of The World

The North Western Courier · Thursday 8 March 1945 · page 3

Great Britain presents hor wartime story of the world. No figures of speech can outshine the lucid splendour of the statistics which the…

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Incinerate Own Wounded Manila

The North Western Courier · Monday 12 March 1945 · page 1

A spokesman at General MacArthur's headquarters says that Japanese on February 8 blew up a building in Manila containing…

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War in the Nursery

The North Western Courier · Monday 12 March 1945 · page 5

"Toys in Russia remain toys, and I've seen here nothing like a German toy I saw the other day, on the Corinthian Bagatelle principle, which…

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War Wastage Precision Motors For scrap heap?

The North Western Courier · Monday 12 March 1945 · page 3

The cabled announcement from Washington that luxury yachts which have done good service in the maritime war are being sold in America…

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Greatest Day Raid of War Krupps And Essen LONDON

The North Western Courier · Monday 12 March 1945 · page 1

The greatest daylight bombing attack of the whole war was made on Sunday when over 1000 R.A.F. heavy bombers with more…

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Killed in Action in New Guinea

The North Western Courier · Thursday 15 March 1945 · page 4

Word has been received in Narrabri that Lieutenant James Shanahan (A.I.F.), has been killed in action in New Guines…

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Britain's War Effort an All-out Effort

The North Western Courier · Monday 19 March 1945 · page 3

One of the most important statements of the White Paper on the War Effort of the United Kingdom is that the monthly…

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Total U.s. War Production Reviewed

The North Western Courier · Thursday 22 March 1945 · page 8

William L. Batt, vice-chairman of the War Production Board, speaking at the Rotary Glob recently, revealed for the first time…

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Tantalum "New" Metal of This War

The North Western Courier · Thursday 22 March 1945 · page 2

When the U.S. Foreign Economic Administration announced that there is enough tantalum on hand to meet any likely emergency…

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