Ships, Barges, Planes Wrecked at Wewak
GENERAL MACARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Monday.—Mitchells, with an escort of Thunderbolts, made a heavy…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1943
78 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 4
Rush for Pegs Nearly Wrecked Shop
PERTH, Thursday.—Several thousand people almost wrecked a chain store when they surged through the doors and struggled to buy pegs,…
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Pilots in a U.S. Fifth Air Force bomber on a tree-skimming flight counted 21 Japanese planes in the junk-pile at Vanakanua aerodrome after recent air attacks on Rabaul. Picture shows some of the planes…
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NEW YORK, Tuesday. — An American missionary, Dr. Marvin Hansley, said to-day that he and other survivors of a Norwegian…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—During one of the fiercest storms experienced on the coast some months ago, an Allied vessel-ran ashore at…
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WRECKED.— Five sailors were still on board this Allied steamer, wrecked on the Australian coast, when this photograph was taken. Four Australian soldiers lost their lives in rescue efforts on the first day. Despite pounding seas, all members of the crew were saved…
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BRISBANE, Wednesday. — Torrential rain at Southport early this morning caused damage estimated at many thousands of pounds. Rain…
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WRECKED BARGES lying on Scarlet Beach. Finschhafen area, were found to contain the bodies of 37 Japs…
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The Chief Warden (Mr. Patterson) complained to-day that a wave of vandalism on NES property was sterling again in…
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LONDON, Nov. 28.—When bombers were taking off for Berlin on Friday light an explosion at an English acrodrome wreeked seven…
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"We had given up. We were just wondering what it would be like to die." This was how Bill Gallagher. 26-year-old merchant seaman, of Hamilton, to-day described his feelings of…
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Cast on to Morna Point almost naked after their yacht had been wrecked 150 yards from the beach, two Hamilton men lay on the sand…
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LONDON—Launched three times within one day recently, the Cromer (Eng.) lifeboat under Soxswain Henry Blogg, twice rescued…
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Trapped at night in Milne Bay. the steamer Anshun fought valiantly against the heavy guns of a Japanese…
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NEW YORK, Tuesday.—In an interview authorised by the War Shipping Administration. Cadet Midshipman Maurice Price said…
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LONDON, Dec. 8.—Mrs. Margaret Hope Maverley Gordon, of Melbourne who for 52 days shared the work in an open boat with the other…
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SYDNEY.—The Swiss cargo steamer Tugano (10,000 tons) has been put at the disposal of the International Red Cross…
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Rescued from their wrecked homes and taken over flooded creeks, seven members of two families from a mountain area west of Cessnock were admitted to Cessnock Hospital last night in a badly shocked condition…
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