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Riverina · Shipwrecks & the sea
42 stories in Riverina's papers · page 2 of 3
SOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINEA.—Anything on wheels is used for transport on the forward areas of Wau-Salamaua. One of the most unusual vehicles is an ambulance that was made from a wrecked aeroplane fuselage. The body was cut…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, Thursday. — The Algiers correspondent of the Columbia Broad-costing System states than the Allied [?] onslaught against the Axis ring…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →How several well-known Old Junee residents pulled the wreckage of a fiercely burning plane from the body of an unfortunate nineteen-year-old…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Thuseday: The Moscow representative of the B.U.P. states that the Russians fought their way into Oral street by street. The city…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →PICTURE taken at a forward air base during the Eighth Army's advance. A British Hurricane fighter stands ready to take off from a landing field still littered with the wreckage of enemy aircraft. In the foreground is the remains of a a Facke Wulf condor…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, Tuesday. (A.A.P.)-"The evacuation of the German vanguard from Sicily, which began 10 days ago with non-essential personnel, is now being speeded up as the Allies press back the enemy's…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A serious accident occurred about 7.15 last night on the Sturt Highway when a taxi-cab travelling in the direction of Kapooka crashed into…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →STOCKHOLM, Friday: A smashed German plane on Bornholm Island is causing speculation whether it is the famous "secret weapon" upon which…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →NEW YORK, Monday.—At least 25 were killed and 75 to 100 injured when the New York-Buffalo express struck a freight engine 75…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, Sunday.- Broadcast from India report a vast earthquake in Japan with Osaka, the big seaport city in the southern…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WOLLONGONG, Monday: .Fines ranging from 20/ to £7 were imposed on a number of men when they convicted at the Wollongong…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Badoglio has made a nation-wide call to the Italians to sabotage, wreck and destroy everything behind the German lines, following Italy’s declaration of war on Germany…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Swearing in front of the waitresses, knocking a tray out of the proprietorâs hands, kicking the latter in the stomach, Knocking the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MELBOURNE, Thursday: The explosion and fire which wrecked the banking chamber of the Bank of New Zealand, Collins street, and caused…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A petrol task which fell from an aeroplane and dropped into the light well of the Bank of New Zealand building, Collins Street, Melbourne, on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Members of the U.S.-Canadian forces inspect the wreckage of Japanese Zero fighter planes destroyed by attack from the air before Allied landings on Kiska Island in the Aleutians, August 15. The Japanese were forced to flee from the North…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →During one of the fiercest storms experienced on the New South Wales coast some months ago an Allied vessel ran ashore at Shellharbour…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Monday: During one of the fiercest storms experienced on the coast some months ago an Allied vessel ran [?]hore at Shellharbor. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Apparently the Japanese are Mill pouring shipping into Rabaul and the harbour is becoming full of wrecks. To-day's…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →NEW YORK, Wednesday: "It is entirely possible that strategic air power may so wreck the German war potential and destroy the people's…
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