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Riverina · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1944

26 stories in Riverina's papers · page 2 of 2

Wrecked German Vehicle

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 17 October 1944 · page 1

An American tank passes a burned-out German armored vehicle on the side of a country road in Western Europe as troops and armor move up to new positions during the might Allied offensive…

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"Lifeboat"

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 31 October 1944 · page 2

No picture in Hollywood history ever came closer to being an actor's dream than Alfred Hitchcock's production of "Lifeboat" by John…

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Wrecked German Ship At Leghorn

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 17 November 1944 · page 2

Liberation of Italy's third largest post, Leghorn, on July 19, 1944, by U.S. Lieut-General Mark W. Clark's Allied Fifth Army revealed this disabled German warship in the harbor. It had been knocked out by an Allied air attack…

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Bomb Dump Blown Up English Village Wrecked Many Lives Lost

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 29 November 1944 · page 2

LONDON, Tuesday: More than 50 persons are cow known to have been killed, and a village Wrecked as a result of an R.A.F…

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Allies Go Ashore on Angaur Island

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 2 December 1944 · page 1

Troops of the 81st U.S. Army Division swarm ashore from landing craft at Angaur Island in the central Pacific to reinforce earlier assault waves that won the beachhead. The U.S. forces gained control of the Palau croup island within four days, assuring the Allied use of on air bast 530 miles (848 km.) east of the Philippines…

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Home-made Steamer

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 11 December 1944 · page 5

A steamer in which to make puddings or to steam vegetables can be made out of an old sandwich tin and cake tin…

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