News of Australia at War
Mr. Stimson's generous acknowledgment of the part played by-Australia's armed forces in the Pacific fighting will be appreciated here…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1945
9,843 stories in Sydney's papers · page 24 of 250
Gun Battle in Redfern Two Detectives Wounded Suicide by A.W.L. MAN
TWO leading Sydney defectives were wounded-- one is in a dying condition-- and a man was shot dead in a gun battle which lasted from 6.15 .a.m…
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LONDON.--Imagine a battlefield somewhere on the Western Front. It is dark and the tanks are waiting to move forward. A call goes back for the mine detectors-- and a sergeant moves forward with…
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NEW YORK, Jan. 12 (A.A.P.). —"The war has pushed Australia ahead by perhaps 25 years, and is changing her from a…
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LONDON.--Imagine a battlefield somewhere on the Western Front. It is dark and the tanks are waiting to move forward. A call goes back for the mine detectors--and a sergeant moves forward with…
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LONDON.--Imagine a battlefield somewhere on the Western Front. It is dark and the tanks are waiting to move forward. A call goes back for the mine detectors-- and a sergeant moves forward with…
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LONDON.--Imagine a battlefield somewhere on the Western Front. It is dark and the tanks are waiting to move forward. A call goes back for the mine detectors-- and a sergeant moves forward with…
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LONDON, Saturday-- Von Rundstedt's offensive on the Western Front is causing no big changes in Britain's war production programme. British reserves and…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.—Wool has replaced rubber in modern secret weapons and other forms of war-time industry, the chairman of the Australian Wool Board, Mr. Douglas Boyd, said to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →U.s. May Ration Post-war Cars
NEW YORK.--Cars may be rationed in the U.S. after the war, said an official of the Ford Company at Dallas, Texas…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Planning For Sport Boom After The War
LONDON.--Sports organisers all over the country are preparing for a terrific boom as soon as the war ends. THEY reason that for over five years, the greatest sports-loving…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Women's News Admiring Airman's Two War Decorations
At the Investiture at Admiralty House yesterday MRS. W. DOUGLASS (second from left), received, as next of kin, the D.S.O. awarded to her son, the late Squadron-Leader A. C. Douglass, D.F.C. Her other son, CEDRIC, is showing his…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Australia in Radio War Daily Broadcasts To Japan
CANBERRA, Friday. — The American Office of War Information in Australia has beer broadcasting daily from the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Death in the Pit (Our War Correspondent in the Philippines)
WITH Australians it is horse-racing. With the Filipino it is cock-fighting. The difference is that…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Australian Role in Pacific Praise by U.S. War Secretary
WASHINGTON, January 12 (A.A.P.).—"He think everyone knows that Australian ground, sea, and air forces have been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →gossip from here and there the Browns Go to War
THE Brown family of Eagle-hawk (Vic.) are in line for the Victorian, if not the Commonwealth record for the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Facts That End War From Our Staff Correspondent in New York
A QUESTION which is agitating the minds of peoples throughout the world to-day is when and how the present war…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Philippines Beachhead Extended From Our War Correspondent and A.A.P.
Our beachhead on Luzon now extends 22 miles along the coast of Lingayen Gulf, and forward troops are reported to have penetrated 20 miles inland. Resistance, which remains slight, was first met on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Private Gives Life For Comrades From Our War Correspondent, Gordon Holland
AITAPE, January 7.—A New South Wales private gave his life to save his platoon from being enfiladed by eight Japanese who could have caused heavy casualties with rifle and light machine-gun fire. With his Owen gun blazing he marched into a hail of bullets, one of which passed through his neck, and he killed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Grim Tragedy of War Packed Life Ends Brilliant Man of Many Parts
LONDON, Saturday.--David Winser (29), a comparatively unknown man, has been shot dead in Holland by a German machine-gunner…
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