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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · The wars & local soldiers
398 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 8 of 20
The first hospital plane to remove wounded U.S. servicemen from Okinawa arrives on April 7, 1945, at Guam, advanced U.S. Pacific Fleet headquarters in the Marianas. U.S forces on March 31, 1945, invaded Okinawa, 375 miles south of Japan,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Japanese prisoners of war in Manila, guarded by U.S. military police, set out for their daily task of clearing up debris and rubble caused when they and other Japanese wantonly destroyed large sections, of the Philippines capital. U.S. troops and Filipino…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON.—A mother and her five sons, aged from three to 15, who were all in bed, and another woman and her daughter were killed yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Twenty-six soldiers were killed, and two seriously injured when an explosion plosion occurred at Kapooka camp Wagga, yesterday afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The monthly meeting of the committee of the Queanbeyan and Yarlumla Shire Patriotic and War Fund was held on Tuesday night, the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON.—All members of the acting German Government and the High Command have been taken into custody as war prisoners, it was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →According to the British United Press, Australia has demanded the indictment of Hirohito as a war criminal and his execution, as head of a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →WASHINGTON.-American submarines since the Pearl Harbour attack have sunk 4,500,000 tons of Japanese shipping in the Pacific,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Reports from Washington to the effect that negotiations for French participation in the war in the Pacific are going well are some compensation…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The best method of writing is the 7d air letter service for which special forms are available at any post office. It is not necessary to send parcels…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Over 50 per cent, of 100,000 tons of chemical war equipment in Europe is being transferred to the Pacific, says a SHAEF announcement…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Yesterday about 200 girls on high priority work at the Crown Crystal Glass co., waterloo, went on strike allegin that the management had…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, Thursday.—Latest reports from the Levant say that more than 100 persons have been killed and over 100 wounded in Hama, where,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The number of war criminals listed on charges brought by the various Allied Nations total 3085 Germans 110 Italians, 2 Albanians, 17 Bulgarians,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Following a period covering months of suspense since F/O John Manfred was posted as missing during air operations over enemy country, news has…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Referring to the refusal of the British Labour Party to continue the National Government until the end of the Pacific war, the leader of the Country…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON.—Hitler called off the invasion of Britain on October 22, 19[?] after the Luftwaffe had been trounced by the R.A.F. in the Battle, of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Australian troops filling sand bags for protection of patients an advanced dressing station in the Wewak Area, New Guinea. Reading from left to right: Private A; Ccbcroft, Wilberforce N.S.W.; Private W. Haack, of Gympie, Qld.; Sergeant T. G…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The District War Loan Organiser , Mr. G. K. Gregory, visited the schools in Queanbeyan on Tuesday last and explained to the pupils how easy it is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Moscow radio says Russian newspapers have published a map or the occupation zones in Germany 'showing a large slice now occupied by…
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