Salamaua Heroes Wrecked Aerodrome And Bridge
PORT MORESBY Thursday.— A splendid spirit of individualism and bravery was shown by an A.I.F., captain, who, with…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1942
67 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 2 of 4
Four Heroes of Salamaua How Aerodrome Was Wrecked
A splendid spirit of individualism and bravery was shown by an A.I.F. captain, who, with three men decided to stay right in the path of…
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JERUSALEM April 9.—An Australian company of the Royal Engineers has salvaged part of the Turkish train which Lawrence…
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NEW YORK April 86.—The Navy Department has announced that a United States cargo and passenger ship was sunk on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Smashing Attack By Allied Bombers Enemy Planes Wrecked On Rabaul Drome
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS SOUTH-WEST PACIFIC [?]hursday.—A surprise attack by Allied aircraft on an aero[?]ome at Rabaul, where great damage was inflicted on a group [?] 15 enemy aircraft and other bombers on the runway, is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wrecked Boat Held 10 Soldiers Training Staff Exonerated
A verdict of accidental death was given by the Coroner at Camden at the inquest on the death of Pte. Gordon Evans, one…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Shipwrecked Sailors New Device to Repair Machine-gunned Lifeboats
Ships' crews and passengers cast away upon the high seas need no longer be kept constantly at work baling out with anything from empty…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Now e Charred a Wreck
From an undisclosed Allied Base Saturday—The Japanese aerodrome at Lae now appears to be a charred…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →German Submarine Made to Resemble Lifeboat U.s. Merchantman Torpedoed
Survivors from a merchantman sunk 400 miles from New York, revealed that the German submarine which torpedoed their ship, rigged a…
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Twenty-three more men from the cargo steamer sunk 35 miles east of Sydney on Wednesday night appeared off a small fishing village before daylight to-day in the ship's lifeboat…
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“It was all over in five seconds We never had a chance, the torpedo struck us in the centre of the ship, which broke in…
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Thirty-eight men of a crew of 43 are missing following the sinking of a second Australian merchant ship off the New South…
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SYDNEY Friday.— Rice stores only beef and tinned food which have been washed ashore at a New South Wales beach…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Ninth Submarine Believed Sunk Stores Washed Ashore
Another enemy submarine has been seriously damaged and probably sunk off the Australian coast…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Lunch Wrecked on Tuncurry Bar Thrilling Rescue of Three Men
A schnappering excursion that may have had fatal results occurred when three men were rescued from the sea after their boat had been wrokeed on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →British Seamen Interned in Tunisia Survivors From Wrecked Ships
An English missionary discovered 200 British merchant seamen in a concentration camp at Lekef, 100 miles inland from Tunis. All of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Another Smashing Raid On Bremen Trail of Fire and Wreckage(AUSTRALIAN Associated Press)
LONDON June 28.—A large force of R.A.F. bombers last night again heavily attacked Bremen Germany’s second largest port and one of her main centres of U-boat production. Big fires were left burning. Fires were still blazing…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Yesterday's News North Sea Littered with Nazi Wrecks
R.A.F. raids have littered the entire North Sea coast with the wrecks of German ships, and the waters of Emden are studded with…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bodies From Wrecked Lugger
PERTH Monday—Three bodies, washed ashore at Cottestoe have been identified as those o[?] members of the crew of the fishing…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Charmed Life of Dutch Steamer Survived 180 Bomb Attacks (Special to A.U.P)
SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIAN Thursday—A Dutch steamer now a supply ship has become famous because of its charmed life and the high spirits of its intrepid captain He estimated that it has been missed by 180 Japanese…
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