Ace U-boat Killer Dies Ashore
LONDON, Monday: Britain's ace U-boat killer, Captain Frederick John Walker, R.N., has died ashore — of…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1944
72 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 4
"Men Wrecked Physically" Against Abattoir Chain-killing
SYDNEY, Thursday.—"Since the introduction of the chain system I have seen big, young men because physical wrecks," Mr. S. Ware,…
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SYDNEY.—Caught by the strong wind the ferry Karingal was driven ashore in Mosman Bay today wedging two motor launches and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sizzling Words For Home Wrecker New York, Monday
"You ought to be burned at the stake and in public too", a man who broke up his brother's home was told…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Avranches City of Wreckage
LONDON, August 1.A.A.P.—Avranches a city of 7000 inhabitants, was a sea of wreckage when United States armour, after sharpt street…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Rats Get Ashore From Ships
"If overseas vessels are moored to Newcastle wharves without adequate rat guards, the city's efforts towards rat eradication must prove…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wrecked Panzer H.q. in Italy
LONDON, Aug. 3. A.A.P.—After six Kitty-bombers of an Australian Air, Force fighter-bomber squadron in Italy had wrecked the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →German Armour Wrecked
Wreckage of German armour on a Normandy road aptly named "The Bombed Way." Many roads are similarly littered with the debris of enemy equipment destroyed by Allied fighter-bombers…
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LONDON, Tuesday.—Damage inflicted on the French naval base of Toulon by 3000 tons of Allied bombs, combined with…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Perished During Rescue Work on U.s. Steamer
SYDNEY. — America at the Cenotaph next Monday, will recognise the sacrifice of four Australian soldiers who gave their…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Raid Wrecks German HQ In France
LONDON. Friday: Six Mosquito bombers wrecked a inspected German headquarters near Metz (France)…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Six Months After Shipwreck Chance Reunion With Doctor Husband
CHANGE reunion with her husband, Dr. T. F. Rose, of Maitland-road, Mayfield, six months after she and her baby…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wrecked German Equipment
British Eighth Army infantry pass wrecked German ammunition carriers in the advance to the north bank of the Marano River in Italy…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Adolphe Was Wrecked At Newcastle 40 Years Ago
Forty years ago today, the four-masted French barque Adolphe was wrecked on the Oyster Bank at Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Jap Petrol Cracking Unit Wrecked Fighters In Mass Balik Papan Raid
The vital cracking plant of the petroleum installations at Balik Papan, Eastern Borneo, was rendered totally and probably permanently inoperable in a spectacular and devastating raid by American heavy bombers, the third mass…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Theatres "Lifeboat"
Probably the most, powerful entertainment the screen has ever known is "Lifeboat," showing now at the Civic Theatre. With a story by John Steinbech and a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Houses Wrecked by Flying Bomb
LONDON, Oct. 19. A.A.P.—Sol were called out to help in resene work when a flying bomb lest night crashed on a housing estate…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Missing Yacht Washed Ashore: Body Found
MELBOURNE, Sunday.—The yacht The Saint, which, with two occupants, had been missing since it put out on a fishing trip eight…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Glider Wrecked, Pilot Dead
ADELAIDE, Monday.—Kenneth Herman Riebe, 32, an experienced glider pilot and a foundation member of the Waikerie Glider Club,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Germans Wreck Salonika Harbour
LONDON, Nov. 3. A.A.P.—The Germans completely wrecked the harbour at Salonika before they left, according to reports reaching Athlens,…
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