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The wars & local soldiers, 1945

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A Centenarian's War Wound

The North Western Courier · Monday 26 March 1945 · page 4

"George Brooks, a Winnipeg negro was 100 years old on New Year's Day. He is in Deer Lodge Hospital with a leg wound suffered in the last war…

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Loan Broadcast Huge War Expenditure

The North Western Courier · Thursday 5 April 1945 · page 8

Australia's war expenditure is £600,000,000 a year, said Mr. J. H. Scullin, M.H.R. in a national broadcast in support of the Third…

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Britain's War Effort SERVICES U.S. Invasion Armies

The North Western Courier · Thursday 5 April 1945 · page 5

Britain's aid in goods and services to her Allies soared with D-Day, to a value of over one thousand million pounds sterling…

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Air Onslaught On German War Plants LONDON

The North Western Courier · Monday 9 April 1945 · page 1

Nearly 2000 planes, comprising of 1200 Flying Fortresses and Liberators, escorted by 750 fighters, attacked four railway yards, three…

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More War News Encouraged By Eisenhower LONDON

The North Western Courier · Thursday 12 April 1945 · page 1

To enable a fast and the fullest presentation of news to the public, General Eisenhower has reiterated that all forces under his…

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Watched Comrades Die MURDERED by GERMANS British Soldier Tells LONDON

The North Western Courier · Thursday 12 April 1945 · page 1

Even when facing certain defeat the Germans do not appear for cold blooded murder of their enemies…

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ROCKETS Principal Weapon Innovation Of This War

The North Western Courier · Monday 16 April 1945 · page 8

The Office of War Information, citing the U.S. Army, U.S. Navy and Office of Scientific Research and Development reports on the…

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Co-operation And the Farmer Post War Possibilities

The North Western Courier · Monday 16 April 1945 · page 4

National planning for the safe-guarding of social and economic justice will clearly be a feature of the post-war world, and as an aid to the…

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Wounded Filipino Mother and Child

The North Western Courier · Thursday 19 April 1945 · page 1

A Filipino woman, wounded in the face by shrapnel, and her emaciated child wait in front of their burried home in the Paco section of Manila.—Office of War Information picture…

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Social Problems In Country Strain of War Years

The North Western Courier · Thursday 19 April 1945 · page 3

Early in the war all appeared to be making sacrifices but a feeling of complacency had grown up during the last two years and…

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Woman Soldier

The North Western Courier · Thursday 19 April 1945 · page 8

A woman (right), dressed in the field uniform of the German Army, and a German soldier assist a wounded comrade along the street of a town captured by Ninth U.S. Army troops during the large scale push across the Roer River into the plain of Cologne…

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Anzac

The North Western Courier · Monday 23 April 1945 · page 5

Again we see those matchless men, dauntless before their stupendous task. Again we hear the roar of the guns and the cries of wounded…

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Anzac Observance All Services Represented Narrabri Remembrance

The North Western Courier · Thursday 26 April 1945 · page 6

The 30th. commemoration of the landing of Anzac was observed at Narrabri yesterday with the universal respect and solemn dedication worthy…

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Fanatical Defence Under Capital Ruins "Biggest Rat Hunt" of War Berlin Battle London

The North Western Courier · Thursday 26 April 1945 · page 1

The Russians have reached the centre of Berlin, according to Hamburg radio, which is now the main source of the German…

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War on Wheels

The North Western Courier · Thursday 3 May 1945 · page 6

The outstanding success achieved by the Armies would have been impossible had it not been for the vast production of war…

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Britain's War Effort Britain Helps to Feed Hungry Europe—further Cuts Likely in Own Rations

The North Western Courier · Thursday 3 May 1945 · page 9

During the next three months Britain will be sending more than 1,000,000 tons of her own limited food reserves to liberated…

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Victory in Europe Fall of the Third Reich The War Step by Step

The North Western Courier · Monday 7 May 1945 · page 3

With her armies decisively beaten beyond the shadow of doubt, her country overrun by triumphant Allied armies and the back of her homefront broken, Germany's dream of world conquest has come to a shattering end. The Third Reich which Adolph Hitler…

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TELEVISION Immediate Post War Industry

The North Western Courier · Thursday 10 May 1945 · page 3

Niles Trammel, president of the National Broadcasting Company, states that expanding the television industry could help the United States…

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Last Shot in Prague Final Chapter of European War Doenitz Ordered Surrender LONDON

The North Western Courier · Thursday 10 May 1945 · page 1

Prague, capital of Czechoslovakia and the first European capital to be betrayed by Nazi treachery, is free…

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U.S. War Production To Reach Highest Level

The North Western Courier · Monday 14 May 1945 · page 6

J. A. Krug, chairman of the War Production Board, has revealed that war production schedules over the remainder of…

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