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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1943

1,504 stories in Sydney's papers · page 12 of 76

Fire Damage in Adelaide Hills

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 17 February 1943 · page 3

ADELAIDE, Wednesday. -- School children were menaced by 100 ft. pine trees which crashed to the ground, an…

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School Ringed by Bushfire

The Sun · Wednesday 17 February 1943 · page 2

ADELAIDE, Wednesday-- A big bushfire almost ringed Aldgate school yesterday, and the school teacher and his wife had…

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Fire Traps Children

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 18 February 1943 · page 5

ADELAIDE, Wednesday.--School children, trapped by a bushfire in Aldgate school, in the Adelaide Hills, yesterday,…

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Fire Board Election

The Biz · Thursday 18 February 1943 · page 3

Liverpool Council, at its meeting on Tuesday evening, decided to give its first preference vote to Ald. A. J. Childs (a nominee from Liverpool Council) for…

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Death of Fire Officer

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 18 February 1943 · page 8

The death occurred suddenly of Mr. C. W. Sorlie, who for 20 years was officer-in-charge of Fire Brigade Headquarters watch-room in…

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Fire Brigades Contest. Hurstville Men's Team Second

The Propeller · Thursday 18 February 1943 · page 4

A men's team from the Hurstville Fire Brigade was the only one from the St. George district, in either the men's or women's sections, which secured a place in…

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Bush Fire Film; Good Propaganda

The Land · Friday 19 February 1943 · page 3

A PREVIEW of the Commonwealth Government's propaganda [?] on the risks and dangers of bush fire was witnessed in Sydney on Monday,…

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"Sun" Readers Say-- Smokes And Fire

The Sun · Friday 19 February 1943 · page 4

I have just read your editorial comment on "Shylock in the Customs." As a great favor would you let me sit, just once,…

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Reds Advance Under Artillery Fire Cover

The Sun · Friday 19 February 1943 · page 3

On from Stalingrad! Russian infantry move forward supported by artillery fire. The field pieces are camouflaged by green foliage…

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Ack-ack Fire Scared Off Night Raider Gun Crew Had "Itchy" Fingers

Daily Mirror · Saturday 20 February 1943 · page 1

FLYING in from the south, on enemy aircraft circled over Sydney last night at a great height before if was driven out to sea by the split-second action of an anti-aircraft battery…

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Ack-ack Fire Scared Off Night Raider Gun Crew Had "Itchy" Fingers

Daily Mirror · Saturday 20 February 1943 · page 1

FLYING in from the south, on enemy aircraft circled over Sydney lost night at a great height before it was driven out to sea by the split-second action of an anti-airgraft battery…

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Ack-ack Fire Scared Off Night Raider Gun Crew Had "Itchy" Fingers

Daily Mirror · Saturday 20 February 1943 · page 1

FLYING in from the south, can enemy aircraft" circled over Sydney last night at a great height before it was driven out to sea by the split-second action off an anti-aircraft battery…

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Ack-ack Fire Scared Off Night Raider Gun Crew Had "Itchy" Fingers

Daily Mirror · Saturday 20 February 1943 · page 1

FLYING in from the south, an enemy aircraft circled over Sydney last night at a great height before it was driven out to sea by the split-second action of an anti-aircraft battery…

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Bombers Fire Ships at Buin Swift Night Attack On Jap Base Allied Strafe of Wide Area

Daily Mirror · Saturday 20 February 1943 · page 2

STRIKING swiftly in a night attack at an extremely low level, Catalinas and Flying Fortresses scored direct hits on four cargo vessels, aggregating 27,000 tons, in the vicinity…

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Bombers Fire Ships at Buin Swift Night Attack On Jap Base Allied Strafe of Wide Area

Daily Mirror · Saturday 20 February 1943 · page 2

STRIKING swiftly in a night attack at an extremely low level, Catalinas and Flying Fortresses scored direct hits on four cargo vessels, aggregating 27,000 tons, in the vicinity…

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Bombers Fire Ships at Buin Swift Night Attack On Jap Base Allied Strafe of Wide Area

Daily Mirror · Saturday 20 February 1943 · page 2

STRIKING swiftly in a night attack at an extremely low level, Catalinas and Flying Fortresses scored direct hits on four cargo vessels, aggregating 27,000 tons, in the vicinity…

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Bombers Fire Ships at Buin Swift Night Attack On Jap Base Allied Strafe of Wide Area

Daily Mirror · Saturday 20 February 1943 · page 2

STRIKING swiftly in a night attack at an extremely low level, Catalinas and Flying Fortresses scored direct hits on four cargo vessels, aggregating 27,000 tons, in the vicinity…

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Dutch airmen fire Nazi ships

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 21 February 1943 · page 3

LONDON, Sat.--A Dutch squadron with the R.A.F. set fire to two heavily-escorted ships in a German convoy off Holland on Thursday night…

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Fire Wrecks Big Factory

The Sun · Monday 22 February 1943 · page 1

Big Fire Dramatic picture taken soon after the start of the fire which gutted a furniture factory at Annandale today. The fire spread so rapidly that employees had to run for their lives…

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Police Fire at Car Thieves

The Sun · Monday 22 February 1943 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Monday-- Two suspects leaped from a stolen car at Brusnwick at 2.30 am today and, paying no heed to…

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