Steamer Cheated Spies, U-Boats
How the Hororata reached a British port with a cargo of butter and meat though torpedoed and at one stage surrounded by…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1943
46 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 2 of 3
Wrecked Axis Planes
A German Messerschmitt 110 and carcases of Messerschmitt 109's abandoned by the defeated Axis forces in North Africa…
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LONDON, Thursday: Photographic reconnaissance has revealed that the Sicilian port…
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SOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINEA: Anything on wheels is used for transport in the forward areas of Wau-Salamaua…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Byron Bay Port Further Moves to Get Steamer
LISMORE, Sunday: A further stage has been reached in connection with the representations which have been made to the…
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This is the wreckage of an Axis plane destroyed by Allied air power in Tunisia during the victorious Allied campaign against…
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This giant crane wrecked in an Allied air attack on a German flying boat base at Bizerta, Tunisia, was found partly submerged when U.S. forces .occupied the strategic Mediterranean naval base…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wrecked Japanese Barge
A Japanese landing barge, wrecked by half-track artillery of the United States Marines during the fighting on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands, rests on the shore under overhanging trees Another barge, just beyond the soldier standing on the beach met a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Liberators Wreck Rumanian Oil Plants Naples Hammered & "Toe" Again Shelled
LONDON, Monday (AAP). — On Ssturday 200 Middle East Liberators made the world's Suggest few Bevel bombing attack to blast the German-controlled Ploeste oifields in Rumania. The bombers made a flight of 2400 miles and attacked from less…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Meeting Wreckers To Be Prosecuted Check on Poster Law
SYDNEY, Thursday.—The provisions of the Commonwealth Electoral Act and the National Security Regulations are being immediately invoked by the Attorney-General (Dr. Evatt) in a drastic move…
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MELBOURNE, Friday: A 13-year-old boy who planned to wreck the Adelaide-Melbourne Express hid gelignite on the line…
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MELBOURNE. Friday.—On its way to Melbourne to-day, the Adelaide Express, carrying 423 passengers, safely passed over a…
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A dead Japanese soldier lies before a tunnel entrance left at Munda, on New Georgia Island, among the debris left by constant American land, sea, and air bombardment of the enemy South Pacific stronghold. Capitulation of Munda to American troops was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Japanese Subs. Wrecked on Kiska
Japanese miniature submarines were found wrecked on Kiska Island, in the Aleutian chain, by American and Canadian forces who landed without opposition to take possession of the North Pacific base on August 15. Heavy bombardment by sea and air…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday: The interior of the Bank of New Zealand, Collins Street, City, was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bank Wrecked by Petrol Tank From Passing 'Plane
MELBOURNE, Thursday. — The explosion and fire which wrecked the banking chamber of the Bank of Nenv Zealand…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dnieper Battle Opens New Crisis For Nazis Defence Plans Wrecked
LONDON, Sunday (AAP).—It is becoming increasingly evident to observers in London that the struggle for the Dnieper line may become one of the decisive battles of the war. In the past week the military situation on the eastern front has undergone a change so…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Allies Wreck Axis Hangar
Bombs dropped by Royal Air Force planes wrecked this hangar at Gerbini airfield on the plains of Catania, Sicily, during the aerial bombardment that preceded the Surrender of the town to land forces. The tail assembly and fuselage of an Axis plane trapped in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Jap. Naval Balance Wrecked by Losses
NEW YORK, Wednesday (AAP).—Critical weakness in Japan's once smooth-running military machine became…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Dnieper Death Trap Closing on Routed Nazis Wreckage Litters Roads: Krivoi Rog Besieged
LONDON, Wednesday (AAP). — With the Germarss already swept from more than a third of the great Deeper bend battlefield the Russian trap is steadily closing. The German retreat road from Dneipropetrovsk, littered with felasfed tanks and smashed Somes, provides grim evidence of the magnitude of the Seniors defeat…
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