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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1943

685 stories in Sydney's papers · page 16 of 35

Floods in Big Areas

Daily Mirror · Saturday 29 May 1943 · page 2

It is expected that a large area of the Condobolin district will be inundated when a huge volume of flood water down the…

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Floods in Big Areas

Daily Mirror · Saturday 29 May 1943 · page 2

It is expected that a large area of the Condobolin district will be inundated when a huge volume of flood water down the…

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Floods in Big Areas

Daily Mirror · Saturday 29 May 1943 · page 2

It is expected that a large area of the Condobolin district will be inundated when a huge volume of flood water down the…

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Political Roundabout the Prime Minister Interlude Between Storms

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 30 May 1943 · page 8

[?]For John Curtin, as he walked the leaf-strewn avenues of Canberra, it was an interlude, between storms…

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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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Battle of Germany Loosing the Flood

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 30 May 1943 · page 12

[?] Nineteen Lancasters droned through the soft spring night, their dampened exhausts faintly luminescent…

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Wade Flooded River to Rescue Sick Man

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 31 May 1943 · page 5

Four men waded up to the armpits through water with a stretcher held over their heads yesterday when they carried d sick man over the flooded Wollondilly River at Lower Burragorang…

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Labor Storm on Honors Likely

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 2 June 1943 · page 1

CANBERRA, Wednesday.--Conferring of a knighthood on Mr. F. G. Shedden, secretary of the Department of Defence, may have major political repercussions in the Labor movement…

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Italians Quail Under Flood of Bombs Flight Of Evacuees

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 2 June 1943 · page 1

LONDON, Wednesday.--Allied heavy bombers have again dropped a great cargo of high explosives on Foggia Italian air base 80 miles…

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Heavy Monsoonal Rain in Arakan

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 3 June 1943 · page 6

NEW DELHI, June 2 (A.A.P.). —Heavy monsoonal rain is reported on the Arakan (Burma) front. No military activity is…

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Americans Storm Attu Isle

Daily Mirror · Thursday 3 June 1943 · page 1

STORMING MASSACRE BEACH on Attu Island (Aleutians), American troops last month wiped out the Japanese garrison at this strategic base. Picture shows troops landing and unloading supplies from invasion barges…

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Americans Storm Attu Isle

Daily Mirror · Thursday 3 June 1943 · page 1

STORMING MASSACRE BEACH on Attu Island (Aleutians), American troops last month wiped out the Japanese garrison at this strategic base. Picture shows troops landing and unloading supplies from invasion barges…

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Americans Storm Attu Isle

Daily Mirror · Thursday 3 June 1943 · page 1

STORMING MASSACRE BEACH on Attu Island (Aleutians), American troops last month wiped out the Japanese garrison at this strategic base. Picture shows troops landing and unloading supplies from invasion barges…

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Americans Storm Attu Isle

Daily Mirror · Thursday 3 June 1943 · page 1

STORMING MASSACRE BEACH on Attu Island (Aleutians),American troops last month wiped out the Japanese garrison at this strategic base, Picture shows troops landing and unloading supplies from invasion barges. (U.S. Office of War Information picturegram.)…

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Americans Storm Attu Isle

Daily Mirror · Thursday 3 June 1943 · page 1

STORMING MASSACRE BEACH on Attu Island (Aleutians), American troops last month wiped out the Japanese garrison at this strategic base. Picture shows troops landing and unloading supplies from invasion barges…

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"Summer Storm About to Break"

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 3 June 1943 · page 5

NEW YORK, June 2 (A.A.P.). —"What a summer storm is about to break!" says Hanson Baldwin, in the "New York…

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Aftermath of the Storm. More Damage Revealed

The Propeller · Thursday 3 June 1943 · page 3

Although the fury of the storm and flood rains experienced during recent weeks have abated, further indications have been received of damage done and…

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On and Off the Farm Severe Flood Damage

The Land · Friday 4 June 1943 · page 5

Hawkosbury River market gardeners lost heavily in the recent floods. Mr. H. Wenholz, Deputy Chief, Division of Plant Industry, Department…

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Australian Short Story "CYCLONE"

The Sun · Monday 7 June 1943 · page 5

THERE was bad blood between Dad Moggs and Wirewhiskers Britte. It started just after Dad…

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OBITUARY Captain N. H. Gale

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 7 June 1943 · page 2

It is officially announced that Captain Newell Herbert Gale, D.S.O., R.D., R.N.R., formerly of the Cunard White Star Line, is…

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