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Montgomery

... at his Press conference yesterday to comment on Field-Marshal Viscount Montgomery's statement in his memoirs that the second World War might have ended sooner but for Mr. Eisenhower's strategy of fighting on a wide front instead of delivering a punch ...

Published: Thursday 16 October 1958
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 184 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

DESTROYER RETURNS

... DESTROYER RETURNS The Polish destroyer Slyskawica (Lightning) famed for her exploits with the Allied forces during the second World War, will visit Chatham Dockyard on August 8 and 9. She was the target of the first torpedo attack of the war by aircraft ...

Published: Saturday 01 August 1964
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 49 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

Auschwitz prayers as the Pope friar's death

... prayed at the sites of the twin Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Birkenau where four million people died in the Second World War. First he visited Auschwitz, with its barbed wire. wooden watch towers and gloomy huts still stand• ing. The Pope described ...

Published: Friday 08 June 1979
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 186 | Page: 29 | Tags: none

DESTROYER RETURNS

... DESTROYER RETURNS The Polish destroyer Blyskawica (Lightning) famed for her exploits with the Allied forces during the second World War, will visit Chatham Dockyard on August 8 and 9. She was the target of the first torpedo attack of the war by aircraft ...

Published: Saturday 01 August 1964
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 49 | Page: 24 | Tags: none

A PATRIOT REMEMBERS

... A PATRIOT REMEMBERS A French patriot fixing the Tricolor on the war memorial at Rheims. amid the debris of the Second World War. ...

Published: Saturday 09 September 1944
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 23 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

V.C. is Governor

... V.C. is Governor An Australian Second World War hero. Mr Arthur Roden Cutler. V.C.. has been appointed Governor of New South Wales. —Reuter. ...

Published: Thursday 04 November 1965
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 23 | Page: 27 | Tags: none

General dies

... General dies Oen. Holland Smith. who commanded U.S. Marines in the Pacific during the Second World War died at San Diego. California. yesterday, aged 84. Reuter. ...

Published: Friday 13 January 1967
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 26 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

GENERAL CRERAR

... GENERAL CRERAR General H. D. 0. Crerar. who commanded the First Canadian Army during the Second World War. died in Ottawa yesterday. aged 76. ...

Published: Friday 02 April 1965
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 24 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

Back to Italy

... Back to Italy The remains of 3.300 Italian soldiers killed in Tunisia during the second World War left 'nm veeterday for Bari on board the cargo ship Etna for re-burial In Italy. ...

Published: Saturday 26 January 1963
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 32 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

Above:

... . . Coughton Court, near Alcester, the seat of the Throckmorton family, has belonged to the National Trust since the Second World War. Below right ...

Published: Saturday 04 August 1979
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 29 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

a member until the end of the and Ann and daughter

... a member until the end of the and Ann and daughter second World War On being elected to the council I Blythe. The deputy coroner. Mr , J. P. Coventry solicitor. This Is a great shock ...

Published: Tuesday 14 January 1964
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 36 | Page: 17 | Tags: none

Honda's career built on disasters

... first time. A car crash later ended his racing career and he concentrated on motor-cycles. Out of the wreckage of the second World War. using surplus materials, he formed the Honda Motor Co. and built it into a huge motor-cycle concern. Reuter says. Now ...

Published: Saturday 02 November 1963
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 225 | Page: 9 | Tags: none