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Northern Rivers · Shipwrecks & the sea
43 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 1 of 3
U.S. Navy officers who participated in the victorious attacks which drove the Japanese from the South Pacific Gilbert Islands examine a wrecked enemy airplane on Tarawa Island. U.S. Navy Warships fired 2200 tons of shells and U.S. airplanes dropped 700…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, Monday: The Combined Allied correspondent aboard a United States destroyer says: The six Allied infantry divisions ashore at the Anzio beachhead have now been reinforced with heavy artillery…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Two U.S. Army pontoon bridges the swollen Volturno River in Italy flank the ruins of a stove span destroyed by Germans as they fell Back before the north ward advance of Allied troops. A small section of the downstream bridge can be seen in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →This picture, taken from a [?] shows bombs falling toward the German U-boat base at Toulon during an attack on the major naval base in France. F[?]res and explosions seen in one solid mass along the water front show the effect…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →NEW YORK, Thursday (AAP).— The Navy announces that a 7200 ton British freighter drove ashore at Yorke in Maine in a blinding…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →American soldiers on Makin Island examine a Japanese antiaircraft gun damaged by U.S. fice…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, Sunday: Vichy Radio says that the Paris-Bordeaux express was derailed yesterday. Fifty ere believed to have been killed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON. Sunday (AAP).—Vichy radio announces that the Paris-Bordeaux Express was derailed yesterday and that 50 persons are…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Thursday: Giving evidence in an assault case at Redfern Police Court a woman said that she attended a party at which an…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BYRON BAY, Monday.-Yesterday was the 23rd anniversary of the loss of the N.C.S.N. Company's 2000 ton passenger steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →While terrific seas crashed over a wrecked Australian freighter, 32 survivors huddled in an alieyway and kept themselves alive for 30…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON. Friday (AAP).— Twenty-five armed men at midnight on Wednesday entered the Copenhagen plant of the famous…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WASHINGTON, Tuesday: The Navy announced that an enemy submarine torpedoed and sank the Chinese steamer Chungcheng, an…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →One of the first jobs after the invasion landings will be to get equipments ashore as quickly as possible. This photograph shows how in Sielly, pioneers and Royal Engineers waded ashore with every kind of equipment.—British Official photo…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, Thursday (AAP).—Giving one of the first eye-witness accounts of the battles on the French coast a news photographer attached to the American forces said the Germans did not appear to be taken by surprise, as immediately the landing craft touched shore the enemy poured a murderous crossfire into the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →GRAFTON. Thursday.—Messrs. Northam, of Woy Woy, and McAlister, of Casino, reached shore at Crescent Head battered and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Thursday (AAP).—The Berlin HSgh Command communique this afternoon announced the Germans were blowing up the port installations at Cherbourg. It added most of the harbour was now unusable…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, Tuesday (AAP).—During an attack on railway lines between Toul and Foug in Lorraine. French partisans derailed a train…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →WASHINGTON, Wednesday (AAP).—Mopping up operations continue on Saipan, states to-day's Pacific Fleet communique. Small…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LISMORE, Sunday: Emerging as the only clear point from the debacle which wrecked the annual meeting of Group 1 of the NSW…
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