Maitland Boy Pilots “Wrecks” in England
Attached to the Air Transport Auxiliary, W.O John (“Judy”) Garland, or Maitland, was one of five RAAF pilots whose Job in…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1945
51 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 1 of 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 ashor on Pel[?] when jagged reefs off the central Pacific island barred the way to landing craft Marines in the foreground arc rolling gasoline and oil drums to the beach from a landing craft offshore The Marines landed on Pelcliu on September 14, 1944, and gained control of the is and in two…
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PERTH Thurs —Flotsam washed up on a beach on the south. coast of western Australian in eluded 1000 steel. drome each…
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Flotsam washed up on a beach on the south coast of Western Australia included 1000 steel drums, each containing 44…
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LONDON, Jan. 29— Besides scoring direct hits on the Hohen. zollern bridge at Cologne with 1000 pound bombs, on Sunday,…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday—Australian-manned Liberators shattered the Mendalin and Siman power stations of the Kali Konto system—one of the world’s biggest hydro-electric systems—in Japanese-occupied Java at the week-end…
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LONDON, Feb 5—Four thousand pounders in the mammoth attack on Berlin on Saturday completely wrecked the German…
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LONDON Feb. 8—Several persons were killed, most of them women, when a V-bomb hit a shelter in southern England,…
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BRISBANE Tues;—More than two down houses were wrecked or party wrecked by a gale Damage amounting to thousands…
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Damage amounting to several thousands cf pounds was caused by a gale which wrecked or party wrecked more than two dozen houses in…
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Japanese air opposition hardly exists in Central Burma theatre, but Allied pilots encounter other hazards peculiar to the country…
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LONDON April 13.—It will take several years simply clear away wreckage in Essen, says the “Daily Express”…
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NEW YORK April 16.—Bodies of 20 people most of whom were burned beyond recognition, were found in the scattered wreckage…
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Wreckage of a plane found at Crescent Head beach, five miles from Kempsey, is believed to belong to a machine piloted by…
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Following the discovery of two life jackets and wreckage from an Anson aircraft on a beach near Crescent Head, New South Wales, RAAF…
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SYDNEY Mondays Wreckage a launch, which may be part of the Robin May was found to-day. on Kion island in Broken Bay…
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Wreckage of a launch, which may be part of the Robin Moy, was found to-day on Lion Island, in Broken Bay…
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SYDNEY, Monday. When an Allied steamer struck a floating crane The Hawk when it was operating alongside a vessel in…
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LONDON June 4—The Germans almost completely wrecked Flume’s port facilities between April 21 and May 3, says…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Ship Sunk—wo Trace of Crew Vessel Wrecked Off North Coast in Violent Gale
During a violent gale, which is sitll raging off the N.S.W. coast, the 1500-tons coastal freighter, "Koranji, was wrecked off…
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