Brought Watches Ashore
SYDNEY. Friday: Cornellus J. Overbeeke, a Dutch seaman. was fined £50 to-day at the Special Federal Court for bringing watches ashore. Watches…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1944
14 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers
New Landings Americans Now Ashore In The Admiralties Bismarck Sea Is Now Closed to Japs
Somewhere in Australia, Wednesday: Allied forces have landed on Manus, the principal island of the Admiralty Group. This landing by American troops had brought the campaign in New Guinea to its final stage. General MacArthur supervised the operations from a warship…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Making Record Trip to Wreck F.W. Factory
FORTRESSES RECORD TRIP TO WRECK FW-190 FACTORY,--In their belief that East Prussia was beyond the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Macarthur Ashore Antape Landing
NEW GUINEA. Tuesday: Walking ankle deep in mud. General Douglas MacArthur inspected the Tadji fighter strip outside Aitap[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →U.S. Bombs Roll Ashore In Italy
American and Italian sailors, at a seaport somewhere in Italy, join hands to speed up the delivery of a cargo of bombs from the U.S. by rolling them direct from a dock cargo vessel to Italian freight cars, which will carry them to Allied air bases for use against the Germans…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Attempt To Wreck Express Near Marulan
Following yesterday's report of the obstacles placed on the line north of Goulburn, further inquiries…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →R.a.f. Ashore
LONDON, Wednesday: The first R.A.F. bench squadron landed in Europe with the first tide yesterday. It was a squadron of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Commandos First Ashore
A British Naval Commando signalling to landing craft with an Aldis lamp. He and his fellows have one of the tougest jobs of a tough war. They prepare the way for men and tanks to land and signal the best roads and routes. They meet the full brunt of the enemy's strong…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wrecked Japanese Plane
There U.S. soldiers look over the wreckage of a Japanese Zera plane, destroyed on the ground, when American troops captured vital areas in the Admiralty Islands of the South-west Pacific.—U.S. War Information…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Southern France Is Invaded Allies Amazed with Lack of Defence Men, Tanks and Artillery are Pouring Ashore
LONDON, Tuesday: An army of many thousands of Americans is well into the South of France this afternoon and is going head fast, says a Combined American Press correspondent with the Americans, Herbert Matthews…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wrecked Enemy Planes on Saipan
Japanese planes, damaged in the American result on Saipan Island, rest on a strategic airfield seized by U.S. Infantrymen who stormed ashore on the enemy base in the Central Pacific on June 14, 1944. When Japanese naval units attempted to interfere with the operations…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wrecked German Equipment
U.S. soldiers look over wrecked German motorised equipment beside a road on one sector of the rapidly-shifting baide front. The vehicles were blasted by an Allied artillery barrage which swept the area as the enemy moved along the road above. German helmets lie in the foreground…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wreckage at Cherbourg
Two American Generals drive past the wrecked Nazi seaplane hangars in Cherbourg Harbour after U.S. forces entered the city [?] 27. 1944.—…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At Crown Theatre "Lifeboat" Star Attraction
Tallulah Bankhead, famous Broadway dramatic actress, is starred in Alfred Hitchcock's production of "Lifeboat," by John Steinbeck, which is to be on…
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