Daily War Diary
South of the Vistula the Russians advanced 50 miles in two days. The Reds in one place were within 166 miles of Berlin…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1945
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City Letter War
Australia will be at war for another two full years, and if there is any error in that forecast it will be on the side of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →War Casualty Reported Missing
421988 WARRANT OFFICER WILLIAM ALBERT KINLOCH has been reported missing following air operations over Europe on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War News Russian Advance Increasing
One Russian force is 160 miles from Beriln as the result of the capture of Nizno 28 miles north-east of Fozon, the advance taking the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wagga War Effort V.A.D. Notes Sydney March
Great interest is centred this week in the fact that 12 of the members of the Wagga Voluntary Aid Detachment are visiting Sydney for the annual…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Air War German Railway Yards Bombed Brenner Pass Attack
LONDON, Monday (A.A.P.): More than 900 Flying Fortresses and Liberators escorted by 500 Mustangs and Thunder…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Ten Point Plan for Successful End to War Establishment of Peace
LONDON, Mon.: The Moscow radio says: "A ten point programme for conducting the war to a successful conclusion, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dutch Island Inundated for War Purposes Saving the People and Cattle
One of the parts of the Netherlands which has suffered perhaps more than any other is the Island of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Preference to Soldiers' Bill Labour Opposition
The industrial wing of the Australian Labour Party is strongly opposed to the Federal Labour Government granting preference to returned…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Soldier Preference qUESTION Deferred by Federal Cabinet
The Cabinet Executive of [?] of [?] on Tuesday [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Soldier Preference In Employment Federal Cabinet Defers Consideration
The Cabinet discussion of the principle of soldier preference in employment was adjourned to a later sitting without any major decisions having…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Soldier's Fatal Fall Body Found Alongside Line
When Mr. Jack Edwarda, Cootamundra carrier, was travelling towards Wallendbeen on Sunday morning he noticed the body of a soldier lying…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Blinded Soldiers St. Dunstan's Representative in Sydney
SYDNEY, Mon.: Sir Clutha Mackenzie, of St. Dunstan's, the British Institution for Blinded Soldiers, arrived in Sydney by flying…
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Edward Alfred Cullen, aged 18 years, a soldier, went for a swim on Sunday afternoon in the Hume Weir near Albury. It was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Boy Found Wounded
SYDNEY, Tuesday: The condition of James Morton, 16, of Bankstown, who is in Canterbury Hospital, is reported to be…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wagga War Effort Soldiers' Christmas Parcels Letters of Appreciation to A.C.F.
As has been the custom throughout the period of the war, the Australian Comforts Fund hat provided a special Christmas hamper for all troops in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →R.A.A.F. at War Millions of Miles Flown Air Ministry Statistics
MELBOURNE, Tuesday: In the first three years of war against Japan R.A.A.F. squadrons in the Southwest Pacific flew 400,000 operational hours…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Post-war Markets Australia May Be Out of the Race Ill-paid Technicians
SYDNEY, Tuesday: "There is a likelihood of Australia being cut out of the race for post-war markets because it the treatment of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wagga Municipal Council Discussion on 1945 Estimates Aldermen Favor Rise in Rates Budgeting For Post-War Works
As briefly reported in yesterday's issue, a special meeting of the aldermen of the Wagga Municipal Council was held on Monday night to consider the estimates of income and expenditure for 1945 and the works committee's recommendation…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →University Course Earned by Ninth Division Soldier
SYDNEY, Tuesday: Conspicuous ability during war service has won for a Ninth Division soldier a University training course. He…
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