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Northern Rivers · Shipwrecks & the sea
43 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 2 of 3
Emerging as only clear point from the debacle which wrecked the annual meeting of Group 1 of the New South Wales Country Rugby League in Lismore on Saturday night, is that football in the area is being conducted by a body not [?]cognised by the N.S.W. Rugby League o[?] the N.S.W. Country Rugby League…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →U.S. General Sherman tanks roll ashore on Biak Island to reinforce American troops who landed on the island…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A U.S. marine looks over the gutted hangars and twisted remains of Japanese planes on an airfield in the Marshalls…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Three Japanese tanks, which failed to prevent U.S. troops from storming the Southwest Pacific island of Biak, stand amid wreckage on the beach. American guns knocked the turret off the tank at the extreme left. In the background are stilted huts used by inhabitants of the island…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →U.S. Marines examine a riddled four-motored Japanese seaplane, one of several enemy aircraft caught on the ground by American airmen at the Japanese seaplane base at Tanapag [?] Saipan, in the Marlanas…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Long lines of American troops and vehicles pour ashore from LCI's (landing craft-infantry on the coast of Noemfoor Island, about 100 miles west of Biak Island and 800 miles from the Phillipines. Destroyers and warships covered the landing forces after bombarding the Japanese-held South-west Pacific base, July 2, 1944…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Damage estimated at £500 was caused at Wardell on Monday when the wire cables of the ferry were fouled by the North Coast S.N. Company's Wyangaric as she pulled out from Wardell wharf for Lismore about 1.30 p.m…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →U.S. soldiers look over wrecked German motorised equipment beside a road on one sector of the Italian battlefront. The vehicles were blasted by an Allied artillery barrage which swept the area as the enemy moved along the road above…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BRISBANE, Thursday: A southbound steamer rescued four shipwrecked Mackay fishermen this evening…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →U.S. marines wade ashore from landing barges to join their comrades on the Tinian beachhead. U.S. soldiers' crossed to the Marianas Island from Saipan, recently taken enemy supply base two and a half miles to the north, on July 23, 1944. By August 1, organised resistance by the Japanese on the Central Pacific Island, only 1500 miles from the enemy homeland, was ended…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An American ta[?]k roli[?] past a wrecked German Mark VI., Ti[?]er tank in France…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Sunday (AAP).—British destroyers operating in the Gulf of Salonika last, Thursday forced an enemy destroyer ashore…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →American officers in France examine the wreckage of a German vehicle used to town an 88mm. gun. U.S. Office of War Information photo…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →NEWCASTLE, Tuesday.—A Beaufighter plane, one of the two which failed to return to Williamstown aerodrome last Tuesday, was found…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Sunday (APP). —"Rotterdam is finished as a port," says the "Sunday Express" quoting…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →R.A.A.F. rocket-firing Beaufighters made their debut in the South-west Pacific when they made a shambles of a huge stone building housing a Japanese garrison near Hatoelia, in Portuguese Timor…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Carried under the fuselage of a Flying Fortress, the U.S. Army Air Forces' newly-developed lifeboat can be dropped for rescues ait sea. All heavy planes will soon be equipped to carry the plywood. power-driven boat…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →This shattered Japanese plane, its tail assembly and wings torn off and even its Red Ball enemy insignia punctured by shells, was found by U.S. Marines when they captured Peleliu airfield less than 48 hours after landing on the island. This enemy plane…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A wrecked Japanese tank and bomber symbolise the defeat infected on the ga[?] on Peleliu, in the Palan Group of the [?] control pacific, by U.S. Marines. Part of the Marine force with [?] tractors is seen at upper right…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Troops of the 81st U.S. Army Division swarm ashore from landing craft at Angaur Island in the Central Pacific to reinforce earlier waves that won the beachhead. The U.S. forces gained control of the Palau group island within four days, assuring the U.S. use of an air base 530 miles east of the Philippines…
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