Big Italian Dam Now Empty Spectacular Air Feat Sluice-Gates Blown Out German Communications Flooded Australians in Daring Raid
Daily Advertiser · Monday 8 May 1944 · page 1
LONDON, Sunday (A.A.P.).—Reconnaissance at noon yesterday showed that the great Corre Dam on the Pescara River (east of Rome, near the Adriatic coast)…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Electrical Storm Hits Sydney
The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 16 May 1944 · page 2
Freakish electrical storm, which hit Sydney on Sunday night, caused property damage in the city and suburbs. Several buildings were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Weather Flood Danger on South Coast Tributaries of Upper Murrumbidgee May Rise
Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 17 May 1944 · page 2
SYDNEY, Tues.: Further rain throughout various parts of the State yesterday consolidated the hopes that the drought would…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →OBITUARY Mrs. Marion Charlotte Flood
Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 19 May 1944 · page 2
The death occurred at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Roy Hall, of Bega Street, Bega, at 3 a.m. on Sunday (Mothers' Day), of one of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gale at Fremantle
Daily Advertiser · Thursday 25 May 1944 · page 6
PERTH, Wed.: A gale ragtag at 60 miles an hour, and accompanied by torrential rain, swept Fremantle to-day. Low-lying areas were quickly…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Weather Floods Threat Beneficial Falls
Daily Advertiser · Thursday 25 May 1944 · page 6
SYDNEY, Wed.: A warning was given by the State Meteorologist (Mr. Mares) that, became of continued heavy rains, floods were threatened in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Obituary Mrs. M. C. Flood
Daily Advertiser · Thursday 25 May 1944 · page 2
The death occurred at the residence at her daughter, Mrs. Roy Hall, of Bega Street, Bega at 3 a.m. on Sunday, May 13, of one of the earliest…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Weather Floods in Gippsland
Daily Advertiser · Friday 26 May 1944 · page 2
MELBOURNE, Thursday: considerable flooding was experienced in Gippsland to-day, but it is not dangerous. The Weather Bureau…
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Cootamundra Herald · Friday 26 May 1944 · page 1
SYDNEY, Friday: The most severe floods for more than ten years have resulted in the isolation, since yesterday, of Eurobodalla and Nerrigundah…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →More Towns Fall in France Drive for Cherbourg Peninsula Germans Flood Areas Weather Allows Resumption of Air Onslaught Planes Operating From French Soil
Daily Advertiser · Monday 12 June 1944 · page 1
LONDON, Sunday (A.A.P.): The Allies are making important progress in Normandy, and appear to be slowly smashing their way across the Cherbourg Peninsula, portion of which has been deliberately flooded by the Germans…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Heavy Rain in Italy Allied Progress Slowed
Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 20 June 1944 · page 2
LONDON, Monday. (A A.P.): Heavy rain impeded movement on roads throughout the whole front." says the Italy official communique:…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →U.S. News Storm in Washington Raised by British Minister "Tokyo Provoked Into War"
Daily Advertiser · Thursday 22 June 1944 · page 2
NEW YORK, Tuesday. (A.A.P.)—"Stunned amazement was the official Washington first reaction to reports of a speech by the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Storm Water From Big Roof to Flush Out Drain
The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 23 June 1944 · page 3
The problem of disposing of the storm waler from the huge catchment area of the roof of the big dehydration building near the cannery…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Floods Subside
Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 11 July 1944 · page 2
Flood waters in most areas of Tasmania have subsided. Plane services and most of the interrupted train services have been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Flooded Holland Repairing Damage Done by Germans
Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 11 July 1944 · page 4
A Netherlands military engineer points out that the Germans, by flooding the western part of Holland, would not only reduce dairy…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Allies Storm French Coast Northern France (Continued from Page 1) Fall of St. Malo Allies Closer to Paris
Daily Advertiser · Saturday 19 August 1944 · page 1
LONDON. Friday. (A.A.P.).—The "New York Times" representative at Supreme Allied Headquarters states: "Paris is…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Heavy Rain Continues in the North 1078 Points at Dorrigo
Daily Advertiser · Saturday 26 August 1944 · page 4
SYDNEY, Friday: The rainfall on the North Coast during the part as hours was still heavy, showing no sign of an immediate abatement of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Massing to Storm Siegfried Line LONDON
Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 8 September 1944 · page 2
Allied troops, mostly heavy armoured divisions, are massed on a 60-mile front ready to storm the German Siegfried line…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Latest Second Edition Fierce Battles in Holland "Unending Flood" of British Tanks, Says German Report
Daily Advertiser · Friday 22 September 1944 · page 5
LONDON, Thursday. (A.A.P.): The German Newsagency says: "Battles raging on the Nijmegen front (Holland) are racing dramatically to a climax. British tank columns seem to be rolling forward in an unending flood, while all the time…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Calais Assault Flooding by Germans Canadians in Mae West Life Jackets
Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 26 September 1944 · page 1
LONDON, Monday: An all-out assault, against Calais was launched today, Involving the employment of one of the greatest concentrations of…
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