Home Made Steamer
A steamer in which to make puddings or to steam vegetables can be made out of an old sandwich tin and cake tin…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Shipwrecks & the sea
Shipwrecks & the sea, 1945
8 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers
Reinforcements Go Ashore at Leyte
American troops make their way down the catwalks of a landing craft and wade, waist-deep in water, toward a beach on Leyte to reinforce the U.S. and Filipino farces already fighting the Japanese on this island in the central Philippines. Some of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Raging Gale Drives Two Vessels Ashore Crews SYDNEY
A south easterly gale is still raging with great fury off the coast and to-day a small tanker was reported aground near Seal Rocks, north of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fog Over Sydney Ferry Steamer Aground Two Injured in Traffic Accident SYDNEY
The ferry steamer Lady Chelmford went aground during a dense fog which enveloped Sydney this morning completely disrupting harbour…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Okinawa: U.S. Tank Wrecked by Land Mine
U.S Marines look at the wreckage of a U.S. General Sherman tank which turned over when it struck a Japanese land mine on Okinawa Both trends were blown off the tank…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Occupation of Japan Allies To Go Ashore on Thursday MANILA, Tuesday (A.A.P.)
Transports carrying British and American occupation farces entered Sagami Bay behind the warships and anchored nearby. The troops will not…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Boat Wrecked Three Men Missing MELBOURNE
Three men are missing from a 60-feet shark boat which was wrecked in the rip at the entrance to Port Phillip at 6.30 a.m to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →TYPHOON Wrecks Okinawa Great Loss of Life MANILA, Thursday (A.A.P.)
Okinawa, the main Allied invasion base, 225 miles from Japan, was almost destroyed in a typhoon yesterday. More than 90,000 American troops…
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