Fortresses Wrecked Plane Plant
LONDON. Sunday, — More than half the factory buildings at the great Focke-Wulf plane assembly works were either…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1943
78 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 4
Wrecked Planes Litter Captured Axis' Dromes
LONDON, Sunday.—Wrecks of at least 100 German and a few Italian aircraft litter the edges of El Alouina airfield. This is only one example of the devastation caused by Allied air forces in the North African clean-up…
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LONDON, Tuesday.—All life-boats on ocean going merchant ships will be equipped as soon ns possible with an apparatus for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Ship's Goods Ashore at Terrigal
GOSFORD, Tuesday.—Along the Central Coast waterfront to-day quantities of goods and ship gear—apparently from one of the vessels…
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GOSFORD, Wednesday.—Wreckage was washed up again to-day along the Central Coast. Evidently it was from ships sunk off the coast,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gwydir Wreck Gear Case Against Four Men Dismissed
WYONG, Friday.—After the coastal vessel Gwydir went on the rocks off Noraville, following a collision on February 14, 1942, she was…
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GOSFORD, Wednesday.—As a result of the recent gale, in which tremendous seas hurled spray 150ft. above the rocks near the Skillion, at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Removal of Nobbys Wreck Delayed
Though the work of removing the wreck from Nobbys Beach was commenced on December 1. 1042, and it was expected that it…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Japanese Airmen Washed Ashore Somewhere in Australia
SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, Friday.—Two Japanese airmen washed ashore in a rubber dinghy on an island off the Australian coast and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Lifeboat By Parachute Saved Bomber Crew
LONDON, May 30.—An airborne, fully equipped two-engined lifeboat was dropped for the first time by parachute…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The End of a Japanese Steamer
THE END OF A JAPANESE SHIP.—Unaware that the U.S. submarine from which this picture was taken, was waiting for the right moment to launch its deadly torpedoes, this 9000-ton Japanese camouflaged merchantman lies at anchor in an unidentified Pacific harbor. A few moments after the picture was taken, three of the sub's torpedoes were on their way to their destination…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Flying-boat Wreckage Sighted Off N.z
AUCKLAND (N.Z.), Wednesday.—The Air Department has received advice that wreckage, believed to be that of the Royal New Zealand Air…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Jap Base Is Now a Wreck
Once the main Japanese air base in the Solomons, Munda has been so battered as to be useless as an enemy…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New Darwin From Wreck of Old
CANBERRA, Friday.—Indirectly, the bombing of Darwin might be materially useful in future planning of the town, the Administrator of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Wrecked Good Name of Australia" Soldier Senator on Recall of Ninth Division
CANBERRA, Monday.—Withdrawal of the Ninth Division after El Alamein by the Curtin Government necessitated…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →British Land Raid Troops on Crete Dromes And Planes Were Wrecked Forces Then Withdrawn
LONDON, Monday.—British troops last night launched a series of swift raids on the island of Crete, where they wrecked German airfields, destroyed grounded planes and burned a large quantity of petrol. A special communique from Middle East Headquarters reports that the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Ambulance From Plane Wreckage
SOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINEA —Anything on wheels is used for transport in the forward areas of Wau-Salamaua…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Air Offensive Mounts Palermo a Wreck
LONDON, July 8.—Allied bombing against the string of Axis aerodromes in Sicily and Sardinia is growing in momentum, says the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →May Blow Up Wreck Training N.E.S. Men in Explosives
The Maianbar wreck off Nobbys, which for two years has withstood efforts to shift it, nay be blown out of the sand by high explosives…
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Sir,—It is to be hoped that the proposal to blow up the wreck of the Maianbar will not be proceeded with. Having known this beach for…
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