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The wars & local soldiers, 1945

9,843 stories in Sydney's papers · page 25 of 250

Grim Tragedy of War Packed Life Ends Brilliant Man of Many Parts

Daily Mirror · Saturday 13 January 1945 · page 11

LONDON, Saturday.--David Winser (29), comparatively unknown man, has been shot dead in Holland by a German machine-gunner. His family will mourn his…

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Grim Tragedy of War Packed Lite Ends Brilliant Man of Many Parts

Daily Mirror · Saturday 13 January 1945 · page 6

LONDON, Saturday.--David Winser (29), a comparatively unknown man, has been shot dead in Holland by a German machine-gunner. His family will mourn his…

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Grim Tragedy of War Packed life Ends Brilliant Man of Many Parts

Daily Mirror · Saturday 13 January 1945 · page 11

LONDON, Saturday.--David Winser (29), a comparatively unknown man, has been short dead in Holland by a German machine-gunner. HIS family will mourn his…

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Drive Into Plain Allied Threat To Manila Our War Correspondent, H. J. SUMMERS

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 13 January 1945 · page 3

LINGAYEN, Jan. 12.—Three columns of American troops are driving deep into the fiat, alluvial country south from…

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Trade, Finance & Produce Markets War Speeds Australian Progress By Perhaps 20 Years, Says Spender

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 13 January 1945 · page 17

NEW YORK, Friday (A.A.P.).--The war had pushed Australia ahead by perhaps 20 years, said Mr. Percy Spender, M.H.R., speeking in New York. Australia was changing from…

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Salient Crumbles Under Blows German Armour Escaping Allied Trap From Our War Correspondents and A.A.P.

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 13 January 1945 · page 1

LONDON, January 12.—The Germans have apparently extricated most of their forces, including their heavy armour, from the Allied trap which was closing on them in the Ardennes…

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Soldiers' Pay On Wharves

The Sun · Saturday 13 January 1945 · page 2

Supporting the 9th Division "battle bonus" claim. Mr. Colin Ashton, president of the NSW branch of the Demobilised…

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American Praise For Australian Soldiers

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 13 January 1945 · page 3

WASHINGTON, Friday (A.A.P.).--Australian ground troops, in jungle warfare in New Guinea, had a great deal to do with the rapid Allied advance in the Pacific, the U.S. War Secretary (Mr. Stimson)…

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Soldier Denies Murder Of Wife

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 13 January 1945 · page 16

BRISBANE, Friday.--An Australian soldier was committed for trial today on a charge of having murdered his wife…

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Trials of a Soldier

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 13 January 1945 · page 12

Sad Sack is the name of the American serviceman's favorite comic strip character. Sad Sack never gets away with anything. In the last drawing of the strip he always comes out worst. The strip has been appearing for a little more than two years in the…

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Giant American Housing Scheme Soldiers To Get Jobs, Homes Slum Dwellings to Disappear

Daily Mirror · Saturday 13 January 1945 · page 12

NEW YORK, Saturday. -- Unhappily at times calculation of money values in America at prevailing exchange rates produces a shock…

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Giant American Housing Scheme Soldiers To Get Jobs, Homes Slum Dwellings to Disappear

Daily Mirror · Saturday 13 January 1945 · page 12

NEW YORK, Saturday.--Unhappily at times calculation of money values in America at prevailing exchange rates produces a shock…

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Giant American Housing Scheme Soldiers To Got Jobs, Homes Slum Dwellings to Disappear

Daily Mirror · Saturday 13 January 1945 · page 12

NEW YORK, Saturday.--Unhappily at times calculation of money values in America at prevailing exchange rates produces a shock…

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Giant American Housing Scheme Soldiers To Ge Jobs, Homes Slum Dwellings to Disappear

Daily Mirror · Saturday 13 January 1945 · page 12

NEW YORK, Saturday.--Unhappily at times calculation of money values in America at prevailing exchange rates produces a shock…

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Allied Soldiers In Europe Have Very High Morale (By Beam Wireless)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 13 January 1945 · page 2

In the midst of a hard, slugging winter offensive—and now defensive in some sectors—against the Germans in Western Europe, the outstanding impression hitherto left with every visitor to the front lines has been that the great mass of…

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Our soldiers praise U.S. war artists

The Sun · Sunday 14 January 1945 · page 9

AUSTRALIAN artists could not stage a show as imaginative or realistic as the display of painting by…

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War Reporter Buried

The Sun · Sunday 14 January 1945 · page 7

William Chickering, 29, war correspondent for the American magazines "Life" and "Time," who was killed by Jap air action…

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WANDA the War Girl

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 14 January 1945 · page 5

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Entertain troops in war zones

The Sun · Sunday 14 January 1945 · page 10

A 'PHONE call to a Chatswood home yesterday caused much excitement. It was the…

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Hirohito's Gift to War Effort

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 14 January 1945 · page 2

NEW YORK, Sat. (A.A.P.). -- Emperor Hirohito has contributed his personal silver articles to the…

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