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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1943

26 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 1 of 2

Wreckage of the German Retreat in Libya

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 13 January 1943 · page 4

Fighting in the Western Desert has died down, but the area is still strewn with the wreckage of battle, Picture shows guns being recovered in the background and a knocked-out enemy carrier in the foreground…

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"Left Unattended" "Machinery Wrecked" Worker Charged Absent From Work

Daily Examiner · Thursday 21 January 1943 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wed.—When Robert Henry Brand, munitions worker, was proceeded against under the National Security…

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Lull Up North in Air—on Land Small-Scale Bombing Enemy Schooner Sunk

Daily Examiner · Friday 19 February 1943 · page 3

Somewhere in Australia, Thurs.—The lull in operations in the South-West Pacific area continued yesterday, all…

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British Bomb Wrecks 10 Acres

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 19 February 1943 · page 1

Britain's 8000lb. bombs now being dropped on Germany were never tested over England, because even the most remote moorland was not…

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Convoy Survivors Drifted Ashore-Killed, Captured

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 10 March 1943 · page 3

Somewhere in Australia, Tues.—Ninety-seven Japanese survivors from the battle of the Bismarck Sea who drifted…

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£12/10/ A Day Paid To Laborers On Wrecked Ship

Daily Examiner · Monday 22 March 1943 · page 2

SYDNEY, Fri.— Waterside workers were paid £12/10/ a day to salvage cargo from a vessel ashore on the Victorian…

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Woolgpolga Rumpus Building Wrecked

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 23 March 1943 · page 4

At the "Grafton Police Court, before Mr. R. M. Stewart, P.M., yesterday. James Gordon Inderrberg. Errol William Lyons and Robert Stanley Eddy,…

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Raft Washed Ashore At Terrigal Beach

Daily Examiner · Thursday 1 April 1943 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wed.— Covered with barnacles and exhibiting other signs of having been in the water for a considerable…

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Grave Danger On Schooner Front At Newcastle

Daily Examiner · Friday 2 April 1943 · page 1

NEWCASTLE, Thurs.—Unless something is done quickly to settle the boer strike there is a grave danger of industrial…

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Battle of Germany Starts Air Blitz From Britain Wrecks Enemy's Internal Structure in Preparation for Final Blow

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 18 May 1943 · page 3

LONDON, Sun.—Unprecedented activity of the Allied air forces operating from Britain and elsewhere last week is no longer regarded in London as merely strategical bombing, but as "the battle of Germany" itself…

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Wreckage On Terrigal Beach

Daily Examiner · Thursday 27 May 1943 · page 2

GOSFORD. Wed.—Containing canned foodstuffs and other are ticles a large emergency rations galvanised iron tank was with…

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Plane Wreckage Sighted

Daily Examiner · Thursday 10 June 1943 · page 3

AUCKLAND, Wed.—The Air Department has received advice that wreckage believed to be that of the Royal New Zealand Air…

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Boiler Makers Want Special Rates for Work on Wrecks

Daily Examiner · Friday 11 June 1943 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thurs.—The difficulties under which boilermakers work when engaged on wreckage were related by…

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Wreckage of Missing Plane

Daily Examiner · Thursday 17 June 1943 · page 1

AUCKLAND, Wed.—The Prime Minister announced that seven of the crew of eight passengers in the Catalina flying boat recently…

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Opinions of Our Readers River Steamer

Daily Examiner · Friday 18 June 1943 · page 4

Sir.—As the remarks of Mr. J. D. Kirby, at a meeting of the Woodford Dale Primary Producers' Union, reported in Thursday's issue of the "Daily…

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Crippled Bomber Almost Wrecked By Waterspout

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 21 July 1943 · page 2

Somewhere in New Guinea, Tues.—In a nightmare trip back from the raid on Rabaul a Liberator bomber with crippled…

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Russians Fight Way Into Orel: Germans Leave City a Wreck

Daily Examiner · Friday 6 August 1943 · page 3

LONDON, Thurs.—The British United Press representative at Moscow stales that Russians fought their way into C[?]el, street by street. The city was a mass of flames. Piles of wreckage and debris from blazing buildings lay in the streets…

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What Invasion, Means. Getting Men And Supplies Ashore

Daily Examiner · Saturday 7 August 1943 · page 3

Britain and the United Nations] have had to learn the technique of seaborne invasion only. during the three years since France fell…

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Wreckage of Bomber Found

Daily Examiner · Thursday 26 August 1943 · page 3

LONDON, Wed.—The wreckage of a Liberator bomber overdue since August 20, in a flight from the United States was…

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Disliked Conditions on Board Ship So Swam Ashore

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 15 September 1943 · page 2

ADELAIDE, Tues.—Twenty-two Fijian sailors dived overboard and swam five miles to shore because conditions on…

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