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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1944

646 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 33

Six Flying Passengers Injured Storm Tosses Plane 400 Feet Drop in Line Squall

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 11 January 1944 · page 2

SIX passengers were injured, one severely, when a Qantas Empire Airways flying boat, travelling south from Townsville, flew info a ''line"…

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Six Flying Passengers Injured Storm Tosses Plane 400 Feet Drop in Line Squall

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 11 January 1944 · page 2

SIX passengers were injured one severely, when a Qantas Empire Airways flying boat, travelling south from Townsville, flew into a "line"…

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Six Flying Passengers Injured Storm Tosses Plane 400 Feet Drop in Line Squall

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 11 January 1944 · page 2

SIX passengers were injured, one severely, when a Qantas Empire Airways flying boat, travelling south from Townsville, flew into a "line"…

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Six Flying Passengers Injured Storm Tosses Plane 400 Feet Drop in Line Squall

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 11 January 1944 · page 2

SIX passengers were injured, one severely, when a Qantas Empire Airways flying boat, travelling south from Townsville, flew info a "line"…

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Six Flying Passengers Injured Storm Tosses Plane 400 Feet Drop in Line Squall

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 11 January 1944 · page 2

SIX passengers were injured, one severely, when a Qantas Empire Airways flying boat, travelling south from Townsville, flew into a "line"…

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Six Flying Passengers Injured Storm Tosses Plane 400 Feet Drop in Line Squall

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 11 January 1944 · page 2

SIX passengers were injured, one severely, when a Qantas Empire Airways flying boat, travelling south from Townsville, flew into a "line"…

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Allan Wilson Weathered All Storms

Tribune · Thursday 13 January 1944 · page 4

Solid as a rock through the stormiest period of Australian Labor history — that sums up the character of Alan Wilson,…

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Flood of Letters to Politicians

The Sun · Thursday 13 January 1944 · page 5

Sydney members of the Federal Parliament have received hundreds of letters from electors in the past few weeks,…

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Freak Hailstorm Does £5000 DAMAGE Stores Flooded, Windows Smashed

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 14 January 1944 · page 5

LITHGOW, Thursday.--More than £5000 damage was caused to Lithgow property by a freak hailstorm today. Shop and factory windows were shattered…

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Cyclone Hits Campbelltown

Truth · Sunday 16 January 1944 · page 17

A terrific cyclone struck Campbelltown between 7 and 8 o'clock last night and raged for three-quarters of an hour…

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Blackout in town after storm

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 16 January 1944 · page 3

All lights were off for two and a half hours at Campbelltown, after a storm last night. Hundreds of people who had arrived…

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U.S. Troops Storm 10,000ft. MOUNTAIN

Daily Mirror · Monday 17 January 1944 · page 3

LONDON, Monday. -- American troops with the Fifth Army have stormed and captured Monte Trocchio, a 10,000ft. strongly fortified ridge a few miles from Cassino, on the road to Rome…

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U.S. Troops Storm 10,000ft. MOUNTAIN

Daily Mirror · Monday 17 January 1944 · page 3

LONDON, Monday. -- American troops with the Fifth Army have stormed and captured Monte Trocchio, a 10,000ft. strongly fortified ridge a few miles from Cassino, on the road to Rome…

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U.S. Troops Storm 10,000ft. MOUNTAIN

Daily Mirror · Monday 17 January 1944 · page 3

LONDON, Monday. -- American troops with the Fifth Army have stormed and captured Monte Trocchio, a 10,000ft. strongly fortified ridge a few miles from Cassino, on the road to Rome…

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U.S. Troops Storm 10,000ft. MOUNTAIN

Daily Mirror · Monday 17 January 1944 · page 3

LONDON, Monday. -- American troops with the Fifth Army have stormed and captured Monte Trocchio, a 10,000ft. strongly fortified ridge a few miles from Cassino, on the road to Rome…

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Allies Storm 10,000-Feet Ridge on Rome Road Enemy Flee After Daylong Struggle

Daily Mirror · Monday 17 January 1944 · page 3

LONDON, Monday. -- American troops with the Fifth Army have stormed and captured Monte Trocchio, a 10,000ft. strongly fortified ridge a few miles from Cassino, on the road to Rome…

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Allies Storm 10,000-Feet Ridge on Rome Road Enemy Flee After Daylong Struggle

Daily Mirror · Monday 17 January 1944 · page 3

LONDON, Monday. -- American troops with the Fifth Army have stormed and captured Monte Trocchio, a 10,000ft. strongly fortified ridge a few miles from Cassino, on the road to Rome…

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Doctor's Heroic Leap in Gale Operated for 30 Hours in the Arctic

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 18 January 1944 · page 2

Half a gale was blowing and it was bitterly cold as two British warships slowly drew closer together in heaving mid-ocean seas…

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Damaged by Storms

Nepean Times · Thursday 20 January 1944 · page 4

Reporting to Penrith Council on Friday evening, Mr. C. O. Roberts, electrical engineer, stated: We had several very severe storms…

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Storm Started by Red Peace Story Dying Out

Daily Mirror · Thursday 20 January 1944 · page 7

LONDON, Thursday.--The storm created by Pravda's publication of a story that two "prominent English personalities" had conferred recently with the German Foreign…

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