24 Sailors Perish In Shipwreck
NEW YORK, Wed.—The Navy announced that a 7200-ton British freighter drove ashore at Yorke Maine in a blinding blizzard on…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1944
15 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers
Plane Wreckage Found
MELBOURNE, Wed.—A wing and other wreckage from an Allied plane found by a Volunteer Defence Corps search party…
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SYDNEY, Tues.--An Australian freighter which was lifted bodily by big seas and thrown on to her side on rocks on the…
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SYDNEY, Thurs.--While the Limited Express from Albury to Sydney was travelling at 60 miles an hour near Marulan…
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SYDNEY, Thurs.--A number of persons escaped serious injury when the ferry steamer South Steyne crashed into the Manly…
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PERTH, Wed.--Driven on to rooks near Fremantle to-day the schooner, Stella, one of the largest of the Geraldton fishing…
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PERTH, Tues. -- Henry James Blecher, 30, of Balaclava (Vic.), to-day recounted his experiences as one of 38 survivors who spent…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Jap Garrison of Amboina Left Mass of Blazing Wreckage
General MacArthur's Headquarters, Wed.--Harbor installations and barracks at Ambon, housing the Japanese garrison of Amboina, south from Halmahera, were left a mass of blazing wreckage on Monday, after the heaviest raid yet by more than 75 Lightning…
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CANBERRA, Thursday.--The Prime Minister, Mr. Curtin, told the House of Representatives today that unless strikes ceased…
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Italian military personnel clears a railroad yard in the Civita-vecchia area, Italy, after it had been bombed by Allied planes. Civitavecchia, main port for Rome, was liberated by the Allied Fifth Army on June 7, 1944, and engineers had the harbor in…
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LONDON', Wed.--Mobile searchlights aided rescue work when flying bombs crashed among flats in southern England last night…
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LONDON, Tues.--Over 50 persons are now known to have been killed and a village wrecked as a result of an R.A.F. bomb dump blowing up near Burton-on-Trent, rocking the Midlands in the worst explosion of the war…
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LONDON, Sun.--The 1400-ton Norwegian, steamer, King Halfdan, has been sunk. Twelve Norwegians and four Germans of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →U.S. Supplies Roll Ashore On Peleliu
Manpower and amphibious tractors were pressed into service by the U.S. Marines to bring supplies and equipment ashore on Peleliu when jagged reefs off the central Pacific island barred the way to landing craft. Marines in the foreground are rolling gasoline and oil drums to the beach from a landing craft offshore. The Marines gained control of the island in two weeks…
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Gutted buildings and jagged sections of walls are interspersed with, bomb craters in Aachen, first German city to fall to the Allies, which was captured by the First U.S. Army on October 21, 1944…
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