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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1943

1,504 stories in Sydney's papers · page 31 of 76

Fierce Air Blows at Rabaul Large Fires Started Bombs Smash Enemy Planes

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 25 May 1943 · page 2

FIRES started when Allied heavy bombers dropped 16 tons of explosives and incendiaries on packed aircraft on Japanese plane bases at Rabaul early yesterday morning…

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Fierce Air Blows at Rabaul Large Fires Started Bombs Smash Enemy Planes

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 25 May 1943 · page 2

FIRES started when Allied heavy bombers dropped 16 tons of explosives and incendiaries on packed aircraft on Japanese plane bases at Rabaul early yesterday morning…

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Dortmund's Agony by Fires and Flood Reports Of Rebellion At Cassel

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 26 May 1943 · page 3

LONDON, Wednesday,--The German industrial city of Dortmund is still in a state of dreadful chaos by fire and wafer after the record R.A.F. raid on…

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Heavier Ground Fire by Japanese Our Staff Correspondent

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 26 May 1943 · page 7

SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, Tuesday.—More intense fire by Japanese anti-aircraft gunners is reported by Allied airmen on…

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Prisoners Fought Gaol Fires

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 28 May 1943 · page 5

LONDON, May 27 (A.A.P.).—Fourteen prisoners who helped to fight fires when Chelmsford Gaol was bombed have each been granted…

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New Terror Gripping at Heart of Italy Axis Fires Own Base

Daily Mirror · Friday 28 May 1943 · page 1

LONDON, Friday.--Heavier and heavier Allied air attacks, which the Axis is powerless to beat back, are rapidly reducing vital installations on…

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New Terror Gripping at Heart of Italy Axis Fires Own Base

Daily Mirror · Friday 28 May 1943 · page 1

LONDON, Friday. -- Heavier and heavier Allied air attacks, which the Axis is powerless to beat back, are rapidly reducing vital installations on…

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New Terror Gripping at Heart of Italy Axis Fires Own Base

Daily Mirror · Friday 28 May 1943 · page 1

LONDON, Friday, -- Heavier and heavier Allied air attacks, which the Axis is powerless to beat back, are rapidly reducing vital installations on…

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New Terror Gripping at Heart of Italy Axis Fires Own Base

Daily Mirror · Friday 28 May 1943 · page 1

LONDON, Friday. -- Heavier and heavier Allied air attacks, which the Axis is powerless to beat back, are rapidly reducing vital installations on…

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Woman Fires at Intruder

Daily Mirror · Saturday 29 May 1943 · page 1

A WOMAN, amazed to find an intruder audaciously serving himself a meal in the kitchen of her home in Dulwich Hill shortly before 11 o'clock last night, fired two shots at him at point-blank range as he escaped…

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Woman Fires at Intruder

Daily Mirror · Saturday 29 May 1943 · page 1

A WOMAN, amazed to find an intruder audaciously serving himself a meal in the kitchen of her home in Dulwich Hill shortly before 11 o'clock last night, fired two shots at him at point-blank range as he escaped…

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Woman Fires at Intruder

Daily Mirror · Saturday 29 May 1943 · page 1

A WOMAN, amazed to find an intruder audaciously serving himself a meal in the kitchen of her home in Dulwich Hill shortly before 11 o'clock last night, fired two shots at him at point-blank range as he escaped…

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Woman Fires at Intruder

Daily Mirror · Saturday 29 May 1943 · page 1

A WOMAN, amazed to find an intruder audaciously serving himself a meal in the kitchen of her home in Dulwich Hill shortly before 11 o'clock last night, fired two shots at him at point-blank range as he escaped…

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JAP N.G. Base Pounded Big Fires Started In Supply Dumps

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 29 May 1943 · page 2

War supplies, sneaked in by the Japanese under cover of bad weather, were heavily pounded by Allied planes at Lae, Jap New Guinea base, on Thursday…

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Town fire beat bucket brigade

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 30 May 1943 · page 2

BRISBANE, Sat.--Troops and A.R.P. men, forming a bucket brigade, fought a fire at Wondai today. They pumped water from a well in…

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BRITAIN From flood to fire went a dambuster

The Sun · Sunday 30 May 1943 · page 3

From flood to fire this week with his new VC went "Wing-Commander Guy Percival Gibson. leader of the squadron which…

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Laborer Dies in Shack Fire

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 31 May 1943 · page 5

A man who was burned to death, at Pagewood yesterday is believed by police to have started the fire by knocking over…

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Jap Convoy Attacked: Transport Set On Fire

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 31 May 1943 · page 1

A Liberator bomber set fire to a 5000-ton Jap transport off Hansa Bay, northern New Guinea, on Saturday. The transport was in a convoy of six ships believed…

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Big Fuel Oil Blaze at Cardiff Workshops

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 1 June 1943 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, Tuesday. --A huge quantity of fuel oil in drums was destroyed by fire at Cardiff railway workshops last night. The works and…

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Fire in Hold of Steamer

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 1 June 1943 · page 4

Firemen spent several hours on board a steamer at an Australian port yesterday, fighting a fire which occurred in No. 1 hold, among…

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