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The wars & local soldiers, 1954

3,142 stories in Sydney's papers · page 8 of 158

Death Rode Skies in Air War When Propeller Gun Was Born The Genius of Inventor A. H. G. Fokker

Daily Mirror · Friday 15 January 1954 · page 19

ONE afternoon in November, 1915, a French observation plane chugged over the German lines, heading back to base. Suddenly, sunlight glinted on the wings of a bi-plane marked with the German…

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Death Rode Skies in Air War When Propeller Gun Was Born The Genius of Inventor A. H. G. Fokker

Daily Mirror · Friday 15 January 1954 · page 19

ONE afternoon in November, 1915, a French observation plane chugged over the German lines, heading back to base. Suddenly, sunlight glinted on the wings of a bi-plane marked with the German…

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Death Rode Skies in Air War When Propeller Gun Was Born The Genius of Inventor A. H. G. Fokker

Daily Mirror · Friday 15 January 1954 · page 19

ONE afternoon in November, 1915, a French observation plane chugged over the German lines, heading back to base. Suddenly, sunlight glinted on the wings of a bi-plane marked with the German…

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Death Rode Skies in Air War When Propeller Gun Was Born The Genius of Inventor A. H. G. Fokker

Daily Mirror · Friday 15 January 1954 · page 19

ONE afternoon in November, 1915, a French observation plane chugged over the German lines, heading back to base. Suddenly, sunlight glinted on the wings of a bi-plane marked with the German…

Continued on Trove, page 19 →

Death Rode Skies in Air War When Propeller Gun Was Born The Genius of Inventor A. H. G. Fokker

Daily Mirror · Friday 15 January 1954 · page 19

ONE afternoon in November, 1915, a French observation plane chugged over the German lines, heading back to base. Suddenly, sunlight glinted on the wings of a bi-plane marked with the German…

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Death Rode Skies in Air War When Propeller Gun Was Born The Genius of Inventor A. H. G. Fokker

Daily Mirror · Friday 15 January 1954 · page 19

ONE afternoon in November, 1915, a French observation plane chugged over the German lines, heading back to base. Suddenly, sunlight glinted on the wings of a bi-plane marked with the German…

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Soldiers Cost More, Says Army

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 15 January 1954 · page 11

MELBOURNE, Thursday.—The cost of maintaining a soldier in the field had increased at least fivefold…

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Australian Pow Sketched 200 Mates As Unique War Task His Cigarette Packet Portraits Tricked Jap Guards He made his final drawings as Allied liberation planes dropped food and comforts on the prison camp

The World's News · Saturday 16 January 1954 · page 4

COME WHERE within the archives that will be used to write the history of Australia's part in World War II is a collection of tracings…

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R.S.L. presses eviction for Anzac House

Truth · Sunday 17 January 1954 · page 7

Although the Queen will now not lay the foundation stone for the Returned Servicemen's…

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Soldier seeks pen friends

Truth · Sunday 17 January 1954 · page 58

I am a lonely soldier going overseas in the very near future. I have no one to write to while over in…

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Soldiers round up drug gang

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 17 January 1954 · page 5

CAIRO, Sat.--British paratroopers helped Egyptian officials today by…

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Anzac House Tenants' Case

The Sun · Monday 18 January 1954 · page 12

Tenants of premises on Anzac House site in College St., will meet Housing Minister Evatt late…

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Surgery aided by war

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 18 January 1954 · page 4

LONDON, Sun. -- The Second World War made possible astounding advances…

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Civvy work for soldiers

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 18 January 1954 · page 13

CANBERRA, Sun.--The Army will attach 16 officers and seven other ranks of the regular force…

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"War unlikely," Dulles praises United Nations

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 19 January 1954 · page 15

WASHINGTON, Tues. (Extel, A.P.) --The United Nations had kept the United States out of a third world war, Mr. John Foster Dulles said…

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"War unlikely," Dulles praises United Nations

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 19 January 1954 · page 15

WASHINGTON, Tues. (Extel, A.P.) --The United Nations had kept the United States out of a third world war, Mr. John Foster Dulles said…

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"War unlikely," Dulles praises United Nations

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 19 January 1954 · page 15

WASHINGTON, Tues. (Extel, A.P.) --The United Nations had kept the United States out of a third world war, Mr. John Foster Dulles said…

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Soldiers jailed for war offences

The Sun · Wednesday 20 January 1954 · page 7

LONDON, Wednesday. --Only one British soldier was court-martialled in Korea for cowardice…

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New Anzac House Evatt To Make Request

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 20 January 1954 · page 14

The Minister for Housing, Mr. Clive Evatt, said last night he would ask the Returned Servicemen's…

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In the last World War

Tribune · Wednesday 20 January 1954 · page 6

THE photograph above shows the moment of victory when Berlin fell, when the defeat of Hitler, waited for by the world’s millions for years, finally became reality. The military defeat of fascism was possible only because…

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