War Prisoners Exchange Swiss Aid Arranged
LONDON, Jan. 5 (A.A.P.).—A new exchange of wounded and ill prisoners of war has been arranged, this time through…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sydney · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1945
9,843 stories in Sydney's papers · page 10 of 250
Home Radio Sets After the War
Many manufacturers in the U.S.A. have already built and tested the radio and television sets which will be sold to the public after the war. The corporations have a pretty good idea of the prices they will…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Record Response to U.s. War Loan
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 (A.A.P.).— The United States Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Morgenthau, announced that sales in the sixth war loan bond…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Your post-war car New York
THE unexpected German drive in France on December 16 will delay the American civilian…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Strangest Invasion of War-- Akyab a Dead City
AKYAB, Saturday.--Occupation of the big Burma port of Akyab is now complete. In one of the strangest feats of arms in the history of the war, not one Jap was killed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →One More River to Cross! Hazardous War Operation
IN World War II, huge rivers have been crossed by all main combatants—at times with amazing speed. Yet no operation of war is more hazardous in face of a…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Timber Shortage Factors "Post-war Supplies Will Be Assured"
"The timber industry is confident that, given the necessary man-power and transport facilities, it will be able to satisfy any…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"We Don't Want Pity" War Victims of Facial Disfigurement
IN October, 1941, there arrived in England from Vichy France a British pilot who had spent the previous eighteen months a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Pessimism Over War Newspaper Outspoken Attack Made on Allies' Policy
LONDON, Saturday. -- The Economist, influential British financial weekly, again discusses British-American disagreements, saying that 1945 is opening gloomily for the Allies…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Attack on Tip of Salient Our War Correspondent. H. A. Standish
ARDENNES FRONT, Jan. 5.— British armour and infantry have bitten into the western tip of the Germans' salient…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Champion Tea Rose Without Jockey Trainer's Worry Thompson Likely to Ride War Effort
TEA ROSE is without a jockey for today's Flying Handicap at Canterbury, announced trainer A. G. Anderson this morning. "I thought that Thompson would be available to handle…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Champion Tea Rose Without Jockey Trainer's Worry Thompson Likely to Ride War Effort
TEA ROSE is without a jockey for today's Flying Handicap at Canterbury, announced trainer A. G. Anderson this morning. " I thought that Thompson would be available to handle…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →British Enter Bulge Fight Combined Onslaught Along 30 Miles From Our War Correspondents and A.A.P.
LONDON, Jan. 5.—British armoured forces and infantry have joined in the Ardennes battle, and with the U.S. First Army are now advancing along a 30-mile front, in a massive attack against the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Rundstedt's Successful Counter-offensive A. M. Pooley's War Commemtary It Has Gained A Lot Of Time For The Huns
COUNTER-OFFENSIVE is so welded into the tactics of battle that it would be almost incredible that Eisenhower should not have foreseen the present great drive by the German army against the northern sectors of the western front…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Pension Plan to Aid Ex-soldiers in Industry
The trade union movement is pressing for the introduction of economic pensions for ex-servicemen suffering industrial disabilities because of war service…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Why Small Ships Men Were Recalled Replaced by U.s. Enlistees
WHILE Army Minister Forde is trying to find the reason for the recall…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Soldier's Loss
THE manuscript of a book "Coral Sea," was taken from a soldier's suitcase in transit from the North to…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →PILFERING A.C.F. PARCELS Soldier Tells Of Wharf Robberies
Evidence of extensive pilfering of A.G.F. parcels for soldiers was given by an Australian soldier to the Daily Telegraph yesterday. The soldier recounted an incident in which theft…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →U.s. Soldier's Snores Were Real Eye-openers
LONDON, Friday.--An American M.P. has been given permission to sleep alone in a 38-bed hut in an English military camp because he snores so loudly…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Charge Against Soldier Amended
Mervyn Fletcher Acheson, 22, soldier, was'yesterday committed for trial on a charge of having maliciously wounded Pilot-Officer Kelvin Smith at 2KY…
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