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Hunter Valley · Shipwrecks & the sea
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SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA Wed.—Between 30 and 40 wrecked Japanese aircraft were found on the Munda airfield when it was captured by Allied forces last week. This was revealed in to-day’s communique…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA Friday— Pilots [?] participated in the amashing attacks on Wewak aerodrom[?] in which 215 Japanese planes were destroyed on the ground or in the sir told vivid stories of their exciting experiences…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA Wednesday—Thirty-seven Japanese planes were destroyed and 29 others probably destroyed or damaged when Allied air forces made another mass raid on enemy aerodromes at Wewak and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →GEELONG Sat—When a fishing boat was wrecked in heavy seas near the south side of Lorne jetty, two girls, Fayga Ginter,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON. Sept. 3—Fortresses based on North Africa have wrecked the railway bridge south of the Brenner Pass…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A strong force of paratroops have seized the western inland approaches along the Markham Valley, thereby completely encircling the Jap. troops…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →[?] of the crew of a [?] ship sunk recently in [?] Indian Ocean have reached [?]ustralian port after 31 days…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →When a customer pays 11d for a schooner of beer in an hotel, half the money goes in excise. The remainder pays for materials for the running of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON Oct 13—With the Germans systernatically mutilating Kiev and employing the scorched earth methods which they always adopt when about to give up any…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →U.S. fighting men inspect the wreckage of a large Japanese twin-engined bomber found on Munda airfield after American soldiers and Marines captured the vital Japanese base on New George Island in the Sciomons on August 6. Pushing north…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →An explosion and fire which wrecked the banking chamber of the Bank of New Zealand building in Melbourne, and caused…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →American bombs wrecked this Japanese seaplane hangar on Kiska Island in the Aleutians during the relentless pounding that drove enemy forces off the Island before Allied troops landed. In the left foreground is an underground installation…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →PERTH Friday—Several thousand people almost wrecked a chain store when they surged through the doors and struggled…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ALGIERS Nor. 3 — The Italian cruiser “Ottoviano Augusta," which is the last remaining in German hands,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →No German man or woman, unless he or she is an air-raid victim, is able to get any new clothes. Owing to our heavy…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON Nov. 8— Many persons were killed and injured when a dance hall, crowded with dancers, and a crowded milk bar beneath it received a direct hit with a heavy high explosive bomb during a brief London alert last night…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON Nov. 23—To-day’s communiqué from the Yugoslav People’s Army of Liberation says guerillas have demolished two…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Correspondents in Moscow are unanimous that the prolonged enemy counter-offensive against the south flank of the Kiev salient has been brought to a standstill. A huge concentration of fire power smashed the attacks, and the battlefields in the Jitomir region are littered with wreckage of monster tanks. Berlin Radio says Russian counter-attacks…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON Nov. 25—Moscow correspondents are unanimous that the prolonged counter-offensive against the south the Kiev salient has been brought to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Correspondents in Moscow are unanimous that the prolonged enemy counter-offensive against the south flank of the Kiev salient has been brought to a standstill. A huge concentration of fire power has smashed the…
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