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The wars & local soldiers, 1945

9,843 stories in Sydney's papers · page 26 of 250

Stop Press Commons War Debate

The Sun · Sunday 14 January 1945 · page 1

Mr. Churchill is expected to open a two-day debate on the war and the Greek situation in the House of Commons next…

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Contrast in War Scarcities London

The Sun · Sunday 14 January 1945 · page 5

STRIKING contrasts in wartime scarcities in Europe are provided by grim measures being taken…

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Earlier shop dosing favored -- after war

The Sun · Sunday 14 January 1945 · page 7

CLOSING of retail shops after the war at a slightly earlier hour than at present would meet with the approval of the majority of people, according to a survey made recently by the Australian Gallup Poll…

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Monte Carlo was far from war

The Sun · Sunday 14 January 1945 · page 28

As reverberations from a heavy shell shook the cut glass chandeliers in the casino at Monte Carlo this week, a swarthy…

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War had made her twice a widow

The Sun · Sunday 14 January 1945 · page 30

At 26 years of age Nellie Thomas, of Yorkshire, has been twice-widowed by the war. From her first marriage she has…

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The war hit at two film fun-makers

The Sun · Sunday 14 January 1945 · page 28

The war hit two famous film stars in America, this week. English comedienne Gracie Fields a will lose her radio contract as from…

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It's tough when -- War art critics differ so!

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 14 January 1945 · page 6

If you haven't a mind of your own, and don't know much about art anyway, how are you to…

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Von Rundstedt Has Used All His War Talents

Truth · Sunday 14 January 1945 · page 17

YOU always invite trouble when you step aggressively and uninvited into a man's backyard. The Germans found that in the Battle for Britain and now We have had the same experience on the Western Front…

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Thrilling complete story of Pacific war Pattern for Lecture

The Sun · Sunday 14 January 1945 · page 22

"DESTROYERS have in the past forty-five years Half blinded by the glare, they waited breathlessly, fearfully, for the salvo which at this range should lift them out of the water…

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U.S. at War Heroes Captain Of The Harder

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 14 January 1945 · page 17

Even among the brave, silent men of the submarine fleet, 38-year-old Commander Samuel D. Dealey was a…

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Baume's Overseas Budget Cabled From London Yesterday Inactivity On War Crimes Worries The Public

Truth · Sunday 14 January 1945 · page 15

YOU stand stark naked and spreadeagled with your hands tied high above your shoulders by thongs. It may be winter or summer. You are still spreadeagled and naked. With devilish…

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They met in Sydney A Yank and a Pommy swap ideas (on war, trade and unionism)

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 14 January 1945 · page 9

YESTERDAY I lunched with Vern, a British sailor from Wales, and Ed, an American soldier…

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Drinks with a Soldier

Truth · Sunday 14 January 1945 · page 23

A PERFECT understanding existed between Allied private soldier John Anderson and the wife of A.I.F. Private Gregory Neil…

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Gypsy Girl Before Court: Story by Soldier

Truth · Sunday 14 January 1945 · page 11

ONE of a band of gypsies, Helen Johan (27), domestic,…

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A Nazi girl soldier surrendered

The Sun · Sunday 14 January 1945 · page 28

In the Hardi Forest, a machine-gunner from Philadelphia told a rifleman from Alabama about a girl he had captured…

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In Foxhole Row, the soldiers' feet froze to the ground

The Sun · Sunday 14 January 1945 · page 27

To get to Foxhole Row, Bastogne, you park your jeep two or three miles back and set out on foot through the snow-covered Ardennes Hills. You take a narrow slippery path…

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Pin-up's missing leg mystery solved for soldiers

The Sun · Sunday 14 January 1945 · page 7

WHEN "Yank Far East" published a photograph of a pin-up girl with only one leg visible, its…

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Art in War

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 15 January 1945 · page 2

Sir—Few artists will agree with the Statement of the "Herald" art critic in discussing U.S. war paintings that "to the artist there is magnificence even in…

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Crisis Over War Crimes

The Sun · Monday 15 January 1945 · page 7

LONDON, Monday.--The War Crimes Commission is facing a crisis over the status of enemy leaders when they…

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Naughty Days After War

The Sun · Monday 15 January 1945 · page 5

WASHINGTON, Saturday.--Lax morals and undress, exceeding even the riotous Hying of the "Roaring Twenties," would follow the war, Dr. Winifred Overholster predicted today. Dr. Overholser is…

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