New Technique in Fire Skip Bombing
WASHINGTON, Thurs.--A new technique in fire skip bombing which has been developed by 13th Air Force Lightning fighter…
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Fires & bushfires, 1945
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Fire On Ship Carrying Munitions
MELBOURNE, Mon.--A British ship carrying munitions which caught fire at Port Melbourne last night, was still afire to-night…
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Australians who still read Banjo Paterson's poems may remember Clancy of the Overflow, the drover who had "pleasures that the townsfolk never know--'In the murmur of the breezes and the river on its bars, and he sees the vision splendid of the…
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Fire fighting units of an aircraft carrier of the British Pacific Fleet, sprav the wreckage of an aircraft after an air attack by Japanese suicide planes during recent operations in the Pacific.--Royal Naval Official Photo…
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PERTH, Sun.--Two fires which caused [?]1000 damage at the State School, Bay View Terrace, Clare-mont, last week, have been…
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SYDNEY, Sun.--With his clothes blazing and soaked with methylated spirits a man rushed about his home in Newtown late…
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ROME, Mon.--Prisoners in Regina Coeli prison last night capped the 24 hour revolt by setting fire to the roof of the gaol…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—When a fire broke out in a munitions plant in a town near Sydney today, a great column of white smoke shot into…
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AUCKLAND, Tues.—Pleading guilty to setting fire to four big houses in Auckland suburbs, causing damage estimated about…
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Fanned by a strong westerly gale, a fire completely destroyed a house in Myrtle street, in record time, on Wednesday…
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On the 21st of December, 1944, Mr. —, of Port Elliot, South Australia, posted to his Insurance Office the proposal…
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RANGOON, Sun.—Japanese in Moulmein sent up a heavy ack–ack barrage yesterday against Beaufighter on reconnaissance…
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MANILA, Wed.--It was announced by Singapore radio that the cease fire had not yet been issued in the Asiatic southern…
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RANGOON, Thurs.— LieutGeneral Kimura, commander of the Japanese forces in Burma, confirmed the cease fire order in…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.--Lieut.-General Adachi, commander of the 18th Jap Army in New Guinea, has notified the Australian forces in that area that he has ordered his men to cease fire, but is hot empowered to order them to lay down their arms,…
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SYDNEY, Sun.—Three showgirls of the Tivoli Theatre were severely burned about the upper portion of their bodies when a fire…
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SYDNEY, Mon.--Three Tivoli girls who were burned in a fire in the dressing room on Saturday night are still critically ill, and…
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SYDNEY, Wed.--Over £20,000 damage was caused by a fire at Taubman's paint factory in St. Peters, this afternoon…
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AUCKLAND (N.Z.), Fri.--An ammunition ship on fire threatened a large section of Wellington on June 7, 1943…
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On Wednesday afternoon the Regent Theatre, Murwillumbah, and the residence of the manager Mr. T. Peden, were…
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