British Freighter Wrecked on U.s. Coast
NEW YORK, Wed.: The Navy announced that a 7200-ton British freighter was driven ashore at York Maine in a blinding…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1944
26 stories in Riverina's papers · page 1 of 2
News-hounds Wreck Axis Dynamite Plot
Well laid plans of Axis saboteurs are hilariously wrecked by a cracked brained news-hound and his able girl assistant in Samuel Goldwyn's "They…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Axis Agents Repatriation Steamer's Passage
RIO DI JANEIRO. Mon. — Argentina has asked Brazil, Britain and the US to guarantee a safe passage for the repatriation steamer, which is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Latest Second Edition German Retreat in Russia Roads Littered With Wreckage Ukraine Battle Grows in Violence
LONDON, Friday (AAP).—The Moscow radio says that Gen. Zhukov's forces in Western Ukraine have advanced 62 miles in five days…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Red Army Trap for Huns Deep Thrusts Into Balkan Areas Nazis Retreat Too Hurried for Wrecking Bridges or Sowing Minefields
LONDON, Sunday (A.A.P.): Proskurov, railway junction and important centre of German resistance standing almost at the northern end of the German…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Burma Battle Jap. Communications Wrecked Allied Ambushes Imphal Plain Success
NEW DELHI, Won. (AAP): "General Wingate's Chindit raiders have wrecked and blocked a 130-mile stretch of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gen. MacArthur Ashore Surprise Appearance in Dutch New Guinea
NEW GUINEA, Saturday: Jack Turcott, New York "Daily News" was correspondent who accumpanied General MacArthur on an America cruses…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Armed Men Wreck Shipbuilding Plant
LONDON, Friday: Forty-five armed men at midnight on Wednesday entered the Copenhagen plant of the famous shipbuilding…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Latest Second Edition Great Wreckage in Japan "Tons Upon Tons of Bombs" Dropped on Steel Works
NEW YORK, Friday. A.A.P.): Roy Porter, representing the Combined American Radio networks on a Super-Fortress which bombed Japan, says: "The B29's dropped tons upon tons of bombs on Japanese steel plants but suffered some losses…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Flying Bombs More Houses Wrecked
LONDON, Monday. (A.A P.)—The Air Ministry communique states: "Bomber Command Lancasters yesterday afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Pisa River Crossed by Eighth Army R.A.A.F. in Italy Wreck Divisional Headquarters
LONDON, Thursday: The 8th Army crossed the Pisa River on a wide front south of Montciudo and advanced over one mils. This…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Latest Second Edition Storming of Southern France Great Masses of Troops Pouring Ashore Following Naval-Air Bombardment
LONDON, Tuesday (A.A.P.).—Reuter's correspondent at advanced headquarters in Italy says that the landing in Southern France is officially described as "In strong force." It was led by specially trained Allied troops, many of whom were veterans…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wrecked Enemy Planes on Saipan
American soldiers examine the wreckage of planes and buildings at the Japanese seaplane base at Tanapag, on Saipan Island in the Marianas, knocked out by naval and aerial bombardment preceding U.S. landings on the central Pacific on June…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Desert Air Force Strikes Hard Blows in Italy Hun Supplies Wrecked Mussolini's Attempt at Suicide
LONDON. Tues. (A. A. P.).- "The Desert Air Force dealt one of its heaviest Mows against the Germans in italy…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Japanese Bases Receive Terrific Pounding Installations Wrecked Attacks on Shipping
General MacArthur's Head quarters, Wednesday: A terrific Bounding of the forward Japanese aerodromes from the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gen. MacArthur Goes Ashore on Halmahera a Long Wait Ending
General MacArthur's Headquarters, Friday. General MacArthur, who had watched the bombardment of the main enemy defences…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pacific War Morotai Landing Troops Still Pouring Ashore Reported Evacuation of Davao (By Our War Correspondent, John Loughlin)
General MacArthur's Headquarters, Monday: No signs of an attempt by the powerful Japanese forces in the main Halmahera islands to challenge our newly seized positions on southern Morotai have…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Marshal Petain Described As a Tottering Wreck
NEW YORK, Tuesday: "The New York Times" Gothenburg (Sweden) correspondent states that an Argentine diplomat on his way home from…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wrecked German Equipment
A U.S. soldier looks at the wreckage of German motorised equipment which was pushed by a bulldozer into a ditch by the roadside in Italy, to clear a passage for the advance of a French Algerian unit…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Russian Drive Closer to Riga Wrecked German Army Group Advance Into Slovakia
LONDON, Wednesday (A.A.P.): Further progress in the Russian assault aimed at capturing Riga was reported in a Moscow…
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