Foul Murder by Germans. Fire on Crowds and Wounded in Ambulance
Germans were guilty of foul mass murder outside the royal palace in Amsterdam after the official surrender of the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Fires & bushfires, 1945
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New Mass Fire-bomb Raid Planes Unload 3500 Tons On Yokohama Port
GUAM, Tuesday.--More than 3500 tons of fire-bombs were dropped on Yokohama today by 450 Super-Fortresses in the first major air attack on the port…
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SAN FRANCISCO, Wednesday.--Entirely new methods of firefighting have been one of the biggest factors in…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Fire Rages on Ship
BRISBANE, Thursday. -- A fire is raging in the held of a ship off Brisbane, and fire floats have been sent to fight the flames…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Great Fires Sweep Yokohama Japs Fail To Check Flames
GUAM, Wednesday.--Great fires were still burning today in Yokohama, more than 24 hours after yesterday's raid by 450 Super-Fortresses…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Enemy Capital "Burnt Out" Final Blow Is Near On Tarakan
FOLLOWING a series of heavy raids by Super-fortresses, United States authorities claim that Tokio is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cease Fire In Syria
THE latest reports from Syria that the "cease fire" has sounded, indicate, it is to be hoped, that France…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Just Jake Trial By Fire
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Continued on Trove, page 17 →Superforts Set Fire To Osaka
GUAM, Friday.--More than 450 Superfortresses early this morning set fire to the great Japanese industrial city of Osaka (population 3,300,000). The Superforts which had fighter escort…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Butcher Shop Fire Destroys Weekend Meat
BROKEN HILL, Friday. -- In the most spectacular blaze in Broken Hill's business centre for many years the rear portion of Conroy's. Butchery…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire Out, Ship To Be Examined
BRISBANE, Friday.--Fire in the Allied ship which put back to Moreton Bay yesterday has been extinguished, it was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Osaka Hit by Huge Fire Raid
NEW YORK, Friday. -- A great fleet of Superfortresses this morning dropped more than 3200 tons of fire bombs on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Rioting And Fires In U.S. Disciplinary Camp
NEW YORK, Friday.--One prisoner was killed and three wounded during rioting and fires at Fort Harrison Army disciplinary barracks at Indianapolis…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cargo on Fire. Plight Of Allied Vessel
It was reported from Brisbane that special firemen were rushed to Moreton Bay in motor torpedo boats on Thursday to meet an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Grim Warning to Japanese Blunt Talk By Truman Fires Rage in Osaka
WASHINGTON, Saturday. -- President Truman has warned Japan that unless she surrenders unconditionally, her whole modem plant and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →GREAT U.S. Fire-raid on Osaka Fourth City To Burn
GUAM, Friday.--Almost the whole of the War production area of Osaka, Japan's second city is burning, after one of the greatest Super-Fortress…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire-bombs Again Rain On Heart of Japanese Industry Superforts Stoke Osaka Inferno
GUAM, Saturday.--Superfortresses fire-bombed the great Jap industrial city of Osaka today for the second time in 24 hours. With the city still an inferno from yesterday's 3500-ton blast,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →British Cease-fire Order Obeyed Restoration of Order In Syria Begins From Our Staff Correspondents and A.A.P.
LONDON, June 1.—General Humbolt, French Commander-in-Chief in the Levant, has informed the General Officer Commanding the British Ninth Army in Syria that he has received instructions…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Osaka on fire, city in ruins Bombs Blast Home of the Mitsubishis Guam
THE great Japanese textile city of Osaka, fire-bombed this morning for the second day running, has been almost wiped from the map as a war…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →TODAY: The Nations the Pacific Catapults were used to throw fire at cave-man Japs TIME
FOR the Pacific war, against the ground-hugging Japanese, fire had become the primary U.S. weapon. From Tokio to Okinawa, to…
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