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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1942

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England's Orchards Yield Tracer Bullets and Flares for Shipwrecked Seamen

Daily Examiner · Friday 23 October 1942 · page 6

English formers dig[?]ing holes in the orchards of Glouce[?]ter[?] are helping to make tra[?] bullets and si[?]l [?]es for shipwrecked seamen, says a…

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Rommel's Armies Completely Routed And Wrecked Six Italian Infantry Divisions Surrender Prisoners Counted Now Total Nearly 40,000 500 Tanks and 1000 Guns Captured

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 10 November 1942 · page 3

LONDON, Sun.--Following swiftly on Columbia Broadcasting System's report from Cairo that Mersa Matruh is now in British hands, it is announced that the Allied forces are nearing the Libyan frontier in their unremitting pursuit of the tattered remnants of…

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Towards Benghazi Eighth Army Still Chasing Rommel Roads Strewn with Wrecked War Machines Vast British Land Convoys Streaming West Air Force Still Pounding Fugitives

Daily Examiner · Monday 16 November 1942 · page 3

LONDON, Sat.—The Germans, according to an agency message from Cairo, are now well to the west of Derna. The Eighth Army is now pressing towards El. Mekili, to the south of Derna. The roads are strewn with thousands of wrecked Axis…

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Steamer Lost. Struck Reef--beached

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 25 November 1942 · page 4

ADELAIDE, Tues.--Striking a reef off the southern coast of Flinders Island recently, a well-known South, Australian steamer has been beached and has…

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Ship Ashore On N.Z. Beach Crew of 45 RESCUED

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 9 December 1942 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tues.--News reached Sydney to-day that the Union Company's cargo steamer, Kaiwarra, 3051 tons, had gone ashore…

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New Zealanders Wrecked Rommel's Armored Column Hundreds of Vehicles Smashed—500 Prisoners Allies Almost Ready To Strike In Tunisia

Daily Examiner · Monday 21 December 1942 · page 3

LONDON, Sat.—The Eighth Army which is advancing through Tripolitania is approaching the Sultan area, which is 130 miles from EI Agheila and thirty miles east of Sirte. Axis forces yesterday continued to withdraw along the coast…

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