The Hunter Remembers WWII

By David Dial
April 22 2020 - 5:00am
SMOKO: Two 2/1st Infantry Battalion water carriers pause for a smoke in Aitape in northern New Guinea. Image: University of Newcastle's Cultural Collections.
SMOKO: Two 2/1st Infantry Battalion water carriers pause for a smoke in Aitape in northern New Guinea. Image: University of Newcastle's Cultural Collections.

Newcastle Morning Herald transcriptions and Hunter Valley enlistment and death details for     April 19-25, 1945.

HITLER'S FINAL FRONT

As the Allies converge on Berlin from the east and the west, it becomes a question of increasing interest how and where Hitler will continue the war, for continue it he will - as long as he can find Germans willing to die for him. Even after the loss of the capital and the north German plain, his human resources will be considerable and his natural resources substantial. There are in Italy 24 German divisions, in Austria and Czechoslovakia probably 30, and a tendency has been noted to concentrate in these areas some of the best troops.

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