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Hunter Valley · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1942

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British and Americans Swarming Ashore. French Battleship Damaged

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 10 November 1942 · page 2

Fairly stiff fighting is going on at a number of points in French North Africa, principally at Casablanca and Oran, but British and American troops are swarming ashore almost at all desired points. Three columns of American troops, reportedly about a…

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

Singleton Argus · Friday 13 November 1942 · page 4

English farmers digging holes in the orchards of Gloucestershire are helping to make tracer bullets and signal flares for…

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Pemmican in the Lifeboats Eskimos' Ration Saves Shipwrecked Sailors

Singleton Argus · Friday 20 November 1942 · page 4

Eskimos and trappers of the frozen North who ate their dried strips of caribou meat or pemmican have passed on the idea of…

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Bombing of Italy Wreckage Gangs Busy

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 26 November 1942 · page 4

LONDON Nov. 25—Rome radio says that hundreds of workmen are going to Genoa, Milan, and Turin to clear up the wreckage…

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Benghazi Choked with Wreckage

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 27 November 1942 · page 3

When the British Eighth Army entered Benghazi on Saturday last, they found the hanbour was choked with wrecked ships. The ships had been…

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Smashing Raid on Canton Over 100 Barges Wrecked

Maitland Mercury · Monday 30 November 1942 · page 1

NEW YORK Nov. 29.— The United Press correspondent with the American Air Force in China states that fighters and bombers…

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Wreckage at Toulon Eye-Witness Story

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 3 December 1942 · page 1

NEW YORK December 2.—The “New York Times” Berne correspondent has interviewed a traveller from the south of France, who…

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