Big Steamer Bombed New Delhi, January 6
A communique issued this afternoon stales that a force of Allied bombers on Monday attacked a 15,000-ton vessel which was proceeding up the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Shipwrecks & the sea, 1943
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Valuable Machinery Allegedly Wrecked Munitions Worker Charged SYDNEY
When Robert Henry Brand, munitions worker, was proceeded against under the National Security Regulations at the Central summons court…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →76 Days in Lifeboat; 19 Die New York. February
American Associated Press states that although too weak to give a coherent account at Trinidad, William Colbon an American seaman, who was rescued after…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Lull Up North Continues Small Enemy Schooner Sunk
Lull in operations in the south-west Pacific area continued yesterday, all activity being con[?]ned to small-scale bombing and fighter attacks by Allied…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Jap. Withdrawal Continues in New Guinea Enemy Schooner Sunk Sydney (A.u.p.)
Japanese forces are continuing their withdrawal from the Wau area (New Guinea), but his movement towards Mubo is being harassed by…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Enemy Equipment Wrecked In Desert
Lorries, trucks, ammunition, vehicles, motor wagons and other equipment littered the roads leading westwards along which the enemy forces retreated before the [?]th Army in North Africa. Some of the transports had been left undamaged at the side of the roads, others burned…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Home of Airman Wrecked At, West Albury
These pictures provide a pathetic instance of the damage done during Wednesday night’s storm. They show the remains of the West Albury home of Mrs A. Mildren. The rear section of the house was devastated…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Shipwrecked Seamen Saved by S.O.S. In Sand
A SOS. message traced in sand saved the lives of q party of British seamen. They had spent 12 days in open boats before running ashore on a desolate part of the African coast. They were found by natives, who treated them hospitably. Meanwhile, they traced an SOS. in large…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A War Horror Lifeboat Filled by Dead People
A picture of horror has been brought from the North Atlantic zone where 850 men were lost in two torpedoed American ships early this…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Axis Steamer Settles Down “To Rest”
Seen from-beneath the nose of an abandoned Italian flying boat, an Axis supply ship settles gracefully on the bottom of Matruh harbor. Caught by the RAF. it was but one sample of the air-striking…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A Wreck That Saved Many Lives
This cattle scarred announce but [?]galvanised iron and scrap material, saved many lives in the battle for Wau. It carried scores of men, some badly wounded, from the hospital to the air strip,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The "Schooner" Question at Newcastle One-day Strike Advocated
NEWCASTLE. Tuesday.— A meeting of the Trades Hall Council last night advocated a one-day stoppage of all industries in Newcastle at a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Raft Washed Ashore Sculls Lashed to Side Sydney
Covered with ba[?]acles, and exhibiting signs of having been in the water for a considerable period, a 10 foot square raft with two sets of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Centre of Naples Wrecked by Depot Explosion BERNE. April 1
Although Rome claims that only 72 were killed and 1200 injured in the explosion at an ammunition depot at Naples, it is reported that flying debris…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →U.A.P. “Rebels” Called Wreckers SYDNEY
Members of the party who had formed the National Service Group were concerned not with any great principles, but with gratification of their own personal…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Soviet Guerrillas Wreck Nazi Rail System LONDON, May 5
It was officially announced in Moscow that Soviet guerrillas have caused havoc in the German railway system around Gomel, bringing traffic over…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Havoc in Germany Raf Cause Devastating Floods Millions of Tons of Water Sweep Countryside From Wrecked Dams London, May 19
The German underground radio station, "Atlantic," states that Hitler has proclaimed a state of sledge in the whole of Westphalls…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Radio Dropped to Wrecked Seamen From Sunderland LONDON. May 26
A portable radio dropped from a Coastal Command Sunderland to seamen in a lifeboat in the Atlantic led to the rescue of '19 members of the'…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Rescue From Sky Airborne Powered Lifeboat Dropped by Parachute LONDON, May 30
An air-borne, fully-equipped two-equipped lifeboat for the first time was dropped successfully by parachute from a plane when the crew of a Halifax bomber was rescued…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Recovery of Axis Plane Wrecks LONDON, June 2
Allied Headquarters in North Africa have announced that 558 Axis planes, mostly battered wrecks have been recovered by the Allies in the Tunis…
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