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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1942

2,180 stories in Sydney's papers · page 76 of 109

Russian Planes Blast Nazi Targets Bombs Rain On Berlin And Budapest Many Explosions and Fires Follow

Daily Mirror · Friday 11 September 1942 · page 4

LONDON, Friday.--Moscow has announced that a large force of Soviet bombers blasted military and industrial objectives at Budapest (capital of Hungary), Zagreb (Yugoslavia), Berlin, Konigsberg and other…

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Russian Planes Blast Nazi Targets Bombs Rain On Berlin And Budapest Many Explosions and Fires Follow

Daily Mirror · Friday 11 September 1942 · page 4

LONDON, Friday.--Moscow has announced that a large force of Soviet bombers blasted military and industrial objectives at Budapest (capital of Hungary), Zagreb (Yugoslavia), Berlin, Konigsberg and other…

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Russian Planes Blast Nazi Targets Bombs Rain On Berlin And Budapest Many Explosions and Fires Follow

Daily Mirror · Friday 11 September 1942 · page 4

LONDON, Friday.--Moscow has announced that a large force of Soviet bombers blasted military and industrial objectives at Budapest (capital of Hungary), Zagreb (Yugoslavia), Berlin, Konigsberg and other…

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Russian Planes Blast Nazi Targets Bombs Rain On Berlin And Budapest Many Explosions and Fires Follow

Daily Mirror · Friday 11 September 1942 · page 4

MOSCOW has announced that a large force of Soviet bombers blasted military and industrial objectives at Budapest (capital of Hungary), Berlin, Konigsberg and other parts of eastern Germany, on…

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Compulsory Fitting of Gas Units; Fire Risk at Harvest-Time Stressed

The Land · Friday 11 September 1942 · page 1

THE compulsory fitting of producer gas units to farmers' lorries, to be used for carting the next hay and wheat harvest, is creating a serious problem in the country…

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Bushfire Control Urgent War Problem National Security Order to Prepare for any Emergency Co-operation in Campaign Sought

The Land · Friday 11 September 1942 · page 5

"THIS year we are conducting the biggest campaign ever attempted in the State's history to prevent and check the spread of bush fires. A National Security Order will be issued in a few days to deal with many…

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R.A.F. Sets Dusseldorf On Fire

Daily Mirror · Saturday 12 September 1942 · page 3

LONDON, Saturday.--In the largest bomber raid ever made on a moonless night, the R.A.F. on Thursday night dropped…

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Dusseldorf Set Ablaze with 100,000 Fire Bombs

Daily Mirror · Saturday 12 September 1942 · page 5

LONDON, Saturday.--In the largest bomber raid ever made on a moonless night, the R.A.F. on Thursday night, dropped 100,000 incendiaries on Dusseldorf, one pf .the largest German industrial cities on the Rhine, and then used the glam of the huge fires to blast war factories…

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Dusseldorf Set Ablaze with 100,000 Fire Bombs

Daily Mirror · Saturday 12 September 1942 · page 5

LONDON,Saturday.--In the largest bomber raid ever made on a moonless night, the R.A.F. on Thursday night, dropped 100,000 incendiaries on Dusseldorf, one of the largest German industrial cities, on the Rhine, and then used the glare of the huge fires to blast war factories…

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Dusseldorf Set Ablaze with 100,000 Fire Bombs

Daily Mirror · Saturday 12 September 1942 · page 5

LONDON, Saturday.--In the largest bomber raid ever made on a moonless night,the R.A.F. on Thursday night, dropped 100,000 incendiaries on Dusseldorf, one of the largest German industrial cities on the Rhine, and then used the glare of the huge fires to blast war factories…

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Dusseldorf Set Ablaze with 100,000 Fire Bombs

Daily Mirror · Saturday 12 September 1942 · page 5

LONDON, Saturday.--In the largest bomber raid ever made on a moonless night, the R.A.F. on Thursday night, dropped 100,000 incendiaries on Dusseldorf, one of the largest German industrial cities on the Rhine, and then used the glare of the huge fires to blast war factories…

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Dusseldorf Set Ablaze Wit H 100,000 Fire Bombs

Daily Mirror · Saturday 12 September 1942 · page 5

LONDON,Saturday,--lit the largest bomber raid ever made on a moonless night, the R.A.F. On Thursday night,dropped 100,000 incendiaries on Dusseldorf, one of the largest German industrial cities on the Rhine, and then used the glare of the huge fires to blast war factories…

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Burnt Out Ship Brought To Port

Daily Mirror · Monday 14 September 1942 · page 7

LONDON. -- Shelled and left blazing by an Axis raider, the Yugoslav motor - torpedo - boat Velebit made land after nine…

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DORA Fire Water

Daily Mirror · Monday 14 September 1942 · page 13

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DORA Fire Water

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DORA Fire Water

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DORA Fire Water

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Gallant Rescues in Fire

Daily Mirror · Monday 14 September 1942 · page 1

CAIRO, Monday. -- Sergeant Leonard Lawrence Barton, Chiswick Street, Auburn, R.A.A.F., yesterday received the U.S…

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Gallant Rescues in Fire

Daily Mirror · Monday 14 September 1942 · page 1

CAIRO, Monday. -- Sergeant Leonard Lawrence Barton, Chiswick Street, Auburn, R.A.A.F., yesterday received the U.S…

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