Girl of Nine Rescues Brother, Fights Fire in Blazing Fiat
The Sun · Sunday 13 June 1943 · page 2
DISPLAYING great presence of mind, nine-year-old Patricia Thomas thrust her brother, John, aged four, out of a blazing flat in Ridge-street, North Sydney, last night, then attempted to quell the fire with water. The children were in the flat…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mother's devotion to A.T.C.: first cadet's "fire baptism"
The Sun · Sunday 13 June 1943 · page 5
A mother made a special night journey from Bathurst to Sydney to see her son march in the big ATC parade yesterday. AMONG the interested…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Stopping Plane Fires
Daily Mirror · Monday 14 June 1943 · page 4
NEW YORK.--When a fire on a warplane starts from a tracer bullet, a leaking gasoline tank or an overheated engine, a little metal disk…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Italians Fire On Nazis
The Sun · Monday 14 June 1943 · page 1
LONDON, Monday.-- Open warfare between Italian garrisons in the Dodecanese Islands (off…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Firemen Standing by Coal Blaze
Daily Mirror · Tuesday 15 June 1943 · page 6
FIREMEN are standing by a fire which broke out in some coal bunkers at the North Shore Gas Company's depot in Stuart Street, Manly…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Firemen Standing by Coal Blaze
Daily Mirror · Tuesday 15 June 1943 · page 6
FIREMEN are standing by a fire which broke out in some coal bunkers at the North Shore Gas Company's depot in Stuart Street. Manly…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →All Share in Fire Watching
Daily Mirror · Tuesday 15 June 1943 · page 6
LONDON, Tuesday.--Only the halt; the lame and the blind are left out of the eitizens' fire-watching army which…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Many Fires and Big Explosion Our War Correspondent, M. Pratt
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 15 June 1943 · page 5
SOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINEA, Monday.—At least 25 fires were started in yesterday's raid on Vunakanau airfield…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Danish Shipyard Fire Serious Damage Reported
Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 15 June 1943 · page 2
Mail news from London reports that a big fire recently broke out at Danish Aalborg shipyard, where ships are being built for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fate of League Forward Hongs Fire
The Sun · Tuesday 15 June 1943 · page 6
After discussing until past midnight the eligibility of Don McKinnon, former outstanding Newcastle forward, to play for North Sydney, NSW Rugby League committee last…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fought Fire with Bare Hands
The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 16 June 1943 · page 2
Although wounded three times in the back, and in the neck, knee, and arm, an air gunner put out with his bare hands a fire in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gas Company Loses Coal in Fire
The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 16 June 1943 · page 6
Spontaneous combustion is believed to have caused a fire in coal hoppers at the M[?]nly branch of the North Shore Gas Co. Ltd. About 70 tons of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Bombs Fire Two Rabaul Dromes Jap Night Fighters On Increase 157 Enemy Planes Attack Villages
Daily Mirror · Wednesday 16 June 1943 · page 2
IN a smashing attack on Rabaul by the heaviest force of Liberators ever to bomb the area Lakunai and Rapopo aerodromes were fired from end to end. The flames were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bombs Fire Two Rabaul Dromes Jap Night Fighters On Increase 57 Enemy Planes Attack Villages
Daily Mirror · Wednesday 16 June 1943 · page 2
IN a smashing attack on Rabaut by the heaviest force of Liberators ever to bomb', the area Lokunai and Rapopo aerodromes were fired from end to end The flames were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bombs Fire Two Rabaul Dromes Jap Night Fighters On Increase 57 Enemy Planes Attack Villages
Daily Mirror · Wednesday 16 June 1943 · page 2
IN a smashing of fuck on Rabaul by heaviest force of Liberators ever to bomb the area Lakunai and Rapopo aerodromes were fired from end to end. The flames were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bombs Fire Two Rabaul Dromes Jap Night Fighters On Increase 57 Enemy Planes Attack Villages
Daily Mirror · Wednesday 16 June 1943 · page 2
IN a smashing attack on Rabaul by the heaviest force of Liberators ever to bomb the area Lakunai and Rapopo aerodromes were fired from end to end. The flames were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Women Recruited to Fight Ruhr Fires
The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 17 June 1943 · page 3
LONDON, Wednesday (A.A.P.). -- All women between 17 and 40 have been mobilised for fire-fighting duties in bombed towns and areas in the Ruhr, according to reports reaching London…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Launch Destroyed by Fire
The Propeller · Thursday 17 June 1943 · page 6
When the engine explosion set fire to a launch in Shipwright's Bay, near Tom Ugly's Point, last Sunday, two persons escaped by jumping into a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Heavy Raid on Rabaul Dromes Attacked, Big Fires Started
The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 17 June 1943 · page 2
Many Japanese aircraft are believed to have been destroyed by Allied bombers which raided, Rahaul's two main aerodromes early on Tuesday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Halifax Bomber Improved More Speed and Fire Power
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 17 June 1943 · page 5
LONDON, June 16 (A.A.P.).— It is revealed that the latest version of the Halifax bomber embodies many structural and…
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