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Editorial – America’s Choice

4 November 1944
South Yorkshire Times, November 11th 1944 America’s Choice President Roosevelt’s re-election for a fourth term as President of the United States is not surprising, but in...

Editorial – Election in the Air

4 November 1944
South Yorkshire Times, November 4th 1944 Election in the Air Since it seems that sooner or later we must resign ourselves to a resumption of the...

Editorial – Twice Taught Lesson

18 November 1944
South Yorkshire Times 18 November 1944 Twice Taught Lesson Royal Air Force Lancasters intervened dramatically in the inconclusive Battleships versus Bombs debate this week. The sinking...

Editorial – Hard Pounding

25 November 1944
South Yorkshire Times, November 25th 1944 Hard Pounding General Eisenhower, like Wellington at Waterloo, is seeing who can pound longer.  It is a test of many...

Wedding – South & Oliver

December 1944
South Yorkshire Times, December 2nd 1944 A group taken after the wedding reported in our last issue of Marine T. Oliver (Goldthorpe) and Miss D....

Airman – Coates, Ronald – Pilot’s D.F.C. – Former Colliery Fitter

December 1944
South Yorkshire Times, December 2nd 1944 Goldthorpe Pilot’s D.F.C. Former Colliery Fitter A Goldthorpe airman who has completed 40 operational flights as the pilot of a Stirling...

Editorial – A Well-Kept Watch

2 December 1944
South Yorkshire Times, 2 December 1944 A Well-Kept Watch On Sunday the Home Guard formally “stands down.” In the critical days which followed the Dunkirk evacuation,...