Allies Closing in on Burma Rail Town Road to Mandalay Opening Our War Correspondent, T. L. Goodman
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 9 January 1945 · page 3
BURMA, Jan. 8.—Advance units of the 14th Army are now only four miles north-east of Shwebo. This is the last important town before Mandalay on the railway from Myitkyina, and brings the Allies to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Germans Fall Back in Salient New Threat To Strasbourg From Our War Correspondents and A.A.P.
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 9 January 1945 · page 1
LONDON, Jan. 8.—To avoid being caught in an Allied trap the Germans have begun to withdraw their armoured forces from the western half of the Ardennes salient…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Soldiers Robbed of Comforts
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 9 January 1945 · page 4
MELBOURNE, Monday.—"To our great joy a ship carrying Christmas comforts docked in port a few days ago, but to our dismay we found that…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Death of Soldier After Dive at Baths
The Sun · Tuesday 9 January 1945 · page 3
MELBOURNE, Tuesday. -- After he had dived into 15ft. of water at St. Kilda Baths early this afternoon. Sgt. A. Biggins,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Soldier Misfits; R.s.l Gives Cases
The Sun · Tuesday 9 January 1945 · page 5
Instances of unsatisfactory placement of ex-servicemen by the Manpower Department were quoted by the secretary of the RSL (Mr. J. R. Lewis)…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →27 A.w.l. Soldiers in Civilian Prisons
The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 9 January 1945 · page 9
Twenty-seven of 32 soldiers sent to civil jails in New South Wales last year Were guilty only of having been A.W.L. Pensions-welfare officer of Chatswood-Willoughby…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Soldiers Face Grave Peril Along the Piccadilly Front
Daily Mirror · Tuesday 9 January 1945 · page 9
LONDON, Tuesday.--There's peril in Piccadilly these nights for soldiers home from the front, who are facing greater hazards than robot bombs or even provost men. THESE benighted men are running…
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Daily Mirror · Tuesday 9 January 1945 · page 9
LONDON, Tuesday.--There's peril in Piccadilly these nights for soldiers home from the front, who are facing greater hazards than robot bombs or even provost men. THESE benighted men are running…
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Daily Mirror · Tuesday 9 January 1945 · page 9
LONDON, Tuesday.--There's peril in Piccadilly these nights for soldiers home from the front, who are facing greater hazards than robot bombs or even provost men. THESE benighted men are running…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →U.S. Soldier Allegedly Took Pot Shot At Man
Daily Mirror · Tuesday 9 January 1945 · page 2
LONDON, Tuesday.--If Sir Eric Teichman had been a squirrel he probably would be alive today, it was revealed at a United States court-martial held near Norwich. PRIVATE GEORGE SMITH, of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Soldiers Face Grave Peril Along the Piccadilly Front
Daily Mirror · Tuesday 9 January 1945 · page 9
LONDON, Tuesday.--There's peril in Piccadilly these nights for soldiers home from the front, who arc facing greater hazards than robot bombs or even provost men. THESE benighted men are running…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Soldiers Fight Fire At East Lindfield
Daily Mirror · Tuesday 9 January 1945 · page 3
A large number of soldiers, firemen and more than 50 civilians are fighting a bushfire covering more than two square miles near East Lindfield, north of Roseville golf links. SIX houses are threatened in Mel…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Soldiers Face Grave Peril Along the Piccadilly Front
Daily Mirror · Tuesday 9 January 1945 · page 9
LONDON, Tuesday.--There's peril in Piccadilly these nights for soldiers home from the front, who are facing greater hazards than robot bombs or even provost men. THESE benighted men are running…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Soldiers Fight Fire At East Lindfieid
Daily Mirror · Tuesday 9 January 1945 · page 3
A large number of soldiers, firemen and more than 50 civilians are fighting a bushfire covering more than two square miles near East Lindfieid, north of Roseville golf links. SIX houses are threatened in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Soldiers Face Grave Peril Along the Piccadilly Front
Daily Mirror · Tuesday 9 January 1945 · page 9
LONDON, Tuesday.--There's peril in Piccadilly these nights for soldiers home from the front, who are facing greater hazards than robot bombs or even provost men. THESE benighted men are running…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →3,000 Miles Nearer Japan's Heart in Pacific, 1944 Was a Year of Victories From H. J. SUMMERS, Our War Correspondent in the Philippines
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 9 January 1945 · page 2
General MacArthur, standing astride the Philippines, is 3,000 miles closer to Japan than his most advanced troops were a year ago. This fact emphasises that the year just closed has seen greater progress in the task of rolling back…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War Eagle Out
The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 January 1945 · page 8
War Eagle was withdrawn yesterday from the Anniversary Handicap, to be run at Randwick on January 27…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mounting War Cost
Daily Mirror · Wednesday 10 January 1945 · page 7
NEW YORK, Wednesday--Incomplete figures compiled by the Department of Commerce, estimate the cost of the war to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mounting War Cost
Daily Mirror · Wednesday 10 January 1945 · page 7
NEW YORK; Wednesday--Incomplete figures compiled by the Department of Commerce estimate the cost of the war to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →R.a.a.f. Pilots Report Location of Wounded
The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 10 January 1945 · page 2
An R.A.A.F. Boomerang pilot, flying above a Bougainville battle, reported the position of a wounded Australian, and added he appeared to have been shot in the knee…
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