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The wars & local soldiers, 1945

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Wagga War Effort WAGGA R.S.L. AUXILIARY

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 3 February 1945 · page 4

At a general meeting and social of the Women's Auxiliary R.S.S. end A.I.L.A. held last Tuesday night, at the Soldiers' Hall, Wagga,…

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Post-War Airliners Cocktail Bars and Radio Telephones

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 3 February 1945 · page 2

SYDNEY, Fri.: Large aircraft for both sitting and sleeping passengers and also equipped with cocktail bars, lounges,…

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Britain's Food Imports No Drop Expected After War

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 3 February 1945 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Friday: Primary production in England would have to be maintained at its present unprecedented level after the war,…

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Britain's War Effort Wartime Feeding Policy Saving Shipping Space

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 3 February 1945 · page 8

The way in which the British War Cabinet, assisted by an expert central team of economists and statisticians, maintains close…

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War on Luzon Another American Landing Manila Almost Enveloped Enemy Forces Caught Off Their Balance

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 3 February 1945 · page 4

LUZON, Friday: A new unopposed landing by the Americans on Batangas Peninsula, Luzon, means that Manila is now cut off on three sides, and the early fall of the city is anticipated. The…

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Kicked Soldier One Eve Permanently Lost

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 3 February 1945 · page 4

BATHURST, Friday: James Stoular, 22, was bound over and ordered at the Bathurst Quarter Sessions to pay William Howard,…

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Current Topics War—

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 5 February 1945 · page 2

WITH the war in Europe drawing to a close two things show out very clearly and are in need of full explanation by Allied leaders. One is the…

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War Facts in Brief

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 5 February 1945 · page 2

Britain has mobilised 69 per cent of the total number of people in the active age groups (men 14 to 45) ; women .(14 to 59) for direct war…

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War Facts in Brief

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 5 February 1945 · page 5

From the outbreak of war in September, 1939, to 30th November last Australia had spent a total of £1,850,000,000 directly on war…

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Americans in Dark Australian War Effort

Daily Advertiser · Monday 5 February 1945 · page 3

SAN FRANCISCO, Sun. (A.A.P.): I "Americans are not informed on the part that Australians are playing in the war, and the blame…

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International Talks to Begin This Month in Sydney Rehabilitation After Pacific War

Daily Advertiser · Monday 5 February 1945 · page 2

SYDNEY, Sunday: Plans for world-wide co-operation in planning to meet the problems of liberated countries in the Southwest…

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Daily War Diary

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 6 February 1945 · page 1

"Japan is not much better off than Germany," Admiral Saalwarchter said on the Berlin Radio. He added: "Just as Germany is…

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War Crimes International Commission

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 6 February 1945 · page 2

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

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Prisoners of War Released

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 6 February 1945 · page 2

An American commando group on Tuesday raided a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in eastern Luzon, 25 miles behind the enemy lines, killed…

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Our Sydney Letter War

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 6 February 1945 · page 2

With the war in Europe drawing to a close two things enow out very clearly and are in need ol full explanation by Allied, leaders. One…

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Jet Planes for Pacific War

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 6 February 1945 · page 1

U.S. Office of War Production officials said jet-propelled fighters would displace to a great degree the fighter escort aircraft being used at present…

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Campaign Against Lethal War Souvenirs

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 6 February 1945 · page 4

Hazards of the battlefront are being brought to America — as souvenir bombs, grenades, and other lethal weapons…

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War News British Fleet Attacks Jap Bases

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 6 February 1945 · page 2

A powerful British aircraft carrier force attacked Japanese targets north-west of Australia and enemy oil supplies in the Netherlands East…

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Exhibition of U.s. War Pictures in Cootamundra

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 6 February 1945 · page 2

With the object of broadening understanding between the peoples of the United States and Australia, the U.S. Department of War Information…

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Payment of War Prisoners Increase to Be Sought

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 6 February 1945 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Monday: The Minister for Labor (Mr. Holloway) said to-day that he was preparing a recommendation for Cabinet on…

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