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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1942

2,180 stories in Sydney's papers · page 74 of 109

Fire-ringed Beaches Taken by Marines Grim, Silent Men In Epic Of Solomons

Daily Mirror · Friday 4 September 1942 · page 3

This is the concluding article in the diary of Richard Tregaskis, International News Service war correspondent, who accompanied the U.S. marines who landed in the Solomons and won a great victory for…

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Fire-ringed Beaches Taken by Marines Grim, Silent Men In Epic Of Solomons

Daily Mirror · Friday 4 September 1942 · page 3

This is the concluding article in the diary of Richard Tregaskis, International News Service war correspondent, who accompanied the U.S. marines who landed in the Solomons and won a great victory for…

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Fire-ringed Beaches Taken by Marines Grim, Silent Men In Epic Of Solomons

Daily Mirror · Friday 4 September 1942 · page 3

This is the concluding article in the diary of Richard Tregaskis, International News Service war correspondent, who accompanied the U.S. marines who landed in the Solomons and won a great victory for…

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Fire-ringed Beaches Taken by Marines Grim, Silent Men In Epic Of Solomons

Daily Mirror · Friday 4 September 1942 · page 3

This is the concluding article in the diary of Richard Tregaskis, International News Service war correspondent, who accompanied the U.S. marines who landed in the Solomons and won a great victory for…

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Fire-ringed Beaches Taken by Marines Grim, Silent Men In Epic Of Solomons

Daily Mirror · Friday 4 September 1942 · page 3

This is the concluding article in the diary of Richard Tregaskis, International News Service war correspondent, who accompanied the U.S. marines who landed in the Solomons and won a great victory for…

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Climbed to Safety in Night Blaze

Daily Mirror · Saturday 5 September 1942 · page 9

TRAPPED in his bedroom when a fire broke out in a two-storey house in Hargrave Street, Paddington, last night, Michael Thomas…

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Jump From House on Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 September 1942 · page 9

Two men were forced to jump from a first-storey verandah to a garden to escape from a blazing house in Hargraves Street, Paddington, last night…

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Indignation Over Women Fire-watchers

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 5 September 1942 · page 3

LONDON, Friday.--A Liverpool alderman says he would sooner see his three daughters in jail than risk their lives…

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Fire Guards Dwindle City Buildings Unprotected

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 September 1942 · page 11

Only one building in a city block was providing fire spotters, an investigation made by an N.E.S. official revealed this week,…

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Old Army Boots Find Use As Fire-beaters

Daily Mirror · Saturday 5 September 1942 · page 5

CANBERRA, Saturday.-- Discarded Army boots from which the last "tramp" has been wrested, now end their days in a blaze of glory as…

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War Makes Bush Fires Doubly Dangerous

The Sun · Sunday 6 September 1942 · page 5

MAXIMUM penalties--£50 fine or six months' imprisonment, or both--will be sought by the Rangers' League against all persons convicted on charges of being responsible for starting bush fires…

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Frying Pan To Fire in Big Fight Now

Truth · Sunday 6 September 1942 · page 21

NEWCASTLE, Saturday.—The fight arranged between Peter Duffy, the Cessnock footballer, and Ken Peterson, of Queensland, for…

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By the Fighter Pilot who made Australia's First "Kill"of a Jap Raider Shooting 'em down The pilot's own drawings illustrate a remarkable personal story of an American airman's baptism of fire and how he shot down the first Jap Zero to be destroyed over the mainland of Australia

The Sun · Sunday 6 September 1942 · page 1

WE were on our way to the Philippines and a week out of Pearl Harbor when the Pacific war…

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London's Fire Blitz Tally

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 7 September 1942 · page 6

LONDON, Sept. 6 (A.A.P.).— It can now be disclosed, that the Luftwaffe, in its fire raids on London, started 9.080 fires in…

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Willkie Under Fire In Desert CAIRO, Sunday (AAP)

The Sun · Monday 7 September 1942 · page 1

Mr. Wendell Willkie, US Republican leader, who is on his way to Russia, as a special representative of President Roosevelt, has been through two enemy air raids in the desert…

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Burning Bomber Fires Newark

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 9 September 1942 · page 2

NEW YORK, Wednesday.--An Army bomber, burning from end to end, crashed from a great height into the business section…

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Burning Bomber Fires Newark

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 9 September 1942 · page 2

NEW YORK, Wednesday.--An Army bomber, burning from end to end, crashed from a great height into the business section…

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Burning Bomber Fires Newark

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 9 September 1942 · page 2

NEW YORK, Wednesday.--An Army bomber, burning from end to end, crashed from a great height into the business section…

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Mystery Fire in Bomber; 1 Killed

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 9 September 1942 · page 9

MELBOURNE, Tuesday. -- One of the crew of 10 of a burning U.S. Army bomber was killed when it crash-landed on an Australian aerodrome, the…

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Headlands as Fire Guards

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 10 September 1942 · page 2

ADVISING farmers to take early precautions against bush fires, Mr. S. Rudkia, Dubbo agricultural insiructor, said this week that a…

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