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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1942

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Commonwealth Export Manifests New South Wales K.P.M. STEAMER. Sailed Sydney. Royal Packet Navigation Co., Ltd., agents

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 29 April 1942 · page 2

P.D.S., 5 cs cheese Tozer, Kemsley & Millbourn, 151 cs dry patteries, 36 cs battery plates, 1 cs battery separators…

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Wrecked Messerschmitt Pilot Was Hotel Boy

Daily Mirror · Thursday 30 April 1942 · page 7

LONDON.-- "Why it's Gustav!" said a British officer who stared in surprise at the pilot who had just been rescued from his wrecked Messerschmitt 110 brought down by ack ack guns in the Libyan Desert…

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Wrecked Messerschmitt Pilot Was Hotel Boy

Daily Mirror · Thursday 30 April 1942 · page 7

LONDON.-- "Why it's Gustav!" said a British officer who stared in surprise at the pilot who had just been rescued from his wrecked Messerschmitt 110 brought down by ack ack guns in the Libyan Desert…

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Export Manifests Victoria British India Steamer. Sailed Melbourne. Macdonald Hamilton & Co., agents

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 1 May 1942 · page 3

S Shippers, 75 bgs flour (2 tons), 14 cs canned fruit, 3 cs beans S Shippers, 274 pkgs frozen sundries BLUE STAR MOTORSHIP…

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French Ready to Wreck

The Sun · Friday 1 May 1942 · page 4

LONDON, Friday. Trade unionists of France have addressed to the workers of the…

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Russians Wreck Nazi Plan

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 2 May 1942 · page 1

LONDON, Friday (A.A.P.). -- Persistent Russian attacks on the Kalinin front (100 miles…

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Wrecked Planes Rescued, Rebuilt

Daily Mirror · Saturday 2 May 1942 · page 3

Seven out of every 10 bombers and nine out of every 10 fighters which are wrecked in the Western Desert are…

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Export Manifests Victoria British India Steamer. Sailed Melbourne. Macdonald Hamilton & Co., agents

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 4 May 1942 · page 3

S Shippers, 75 bgs flour (2 tons), 14 cs canned fruit, 3 cs beans S Shippers, 274 pkgs frozen sundries BLUE STAR MOTORSHIP…

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Export Manifests New South Wales British India Steamer. Sailed Sydney. Macdonald Hamilton & Co., Ltd., agents

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 4 May 1942 · page 3

Horlicks, Ltd., 33 bdls caneite, 447 cs, 385 ctns malted milk Foggitt Jones, Ltd., 10 cs hams Nestles, Ltd., 134 cs chocolate, 286 cs…

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Germans Killed in Rail Wreck London

The Sun · Monday 4 May 1942 · page 1

Fifteen German soldiers were killed when, by an act of sabotage, a train was wrecked near Caen, in Occupied France…

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Chinese Thrust at Jap, Supply Lines Bombers Wreck Depots, Dumps In Captured Lashio Mandalay Smashed by Allies

Daily Mirror · Monday 4 May 1942 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.-- Although Chungking admits that the Chinese voluntarily evacuated Mandalay, chief city of…

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Chinese Thrust at Jap. Supply Lines Bombers Wreck Depots, Dumps In Captured Lashio Mandalay Swashed by Allies

Daily Mirror · Monday 4 May 1942 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.-- Although Chungking admits that the Chinese voluntarily evacuated Mandalay. chief city of…

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Chinese Thrust at Jap. Supply Lines Bombers Wreck Depots, Dumps In Captured Lashio Mandalay Smashed by Allies

Daily Mirror · Monday 4 May 1942 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.-- Although Chungking admits that the Chinese voluntarily evacuated Mandalay, chief city of…

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Chinese Thrust at Jap. Supply Lines Bombers Wreck Depots, Dumps In Captured Lashio Mandalay Smashed by Allies

Daily Mirror · Monday 4 May 1942 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.-- Although Chungking admits that the Chinese voluntarily evacuated Mandalay, chief city of…

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Airmen Sail 1500 Miles In Lifeboat MELBOURNE

The Sun · Tuesday 5 May 1942 · page 2

Twelve men of the Royal Air Force and Royal Australian Air Force reached Australia in a ship's lifeboat only a few days ago. They left Java after the Japanese had taken…

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Export Manifests Victoria British India Steamer. Sailed Melbourne. Macdonald Hamilton & Co., agents

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 5 May 1942 · page 3

S Shippers, 75 bgs flour (2 tons), 14 cs canned fruit, 3 cs beans S Shippers, 274 pkgs frozen sundries BLUE STAR MOTORSHIP…

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Export Manifests New South Wales British India Steamer. Sailed Sydney. Macdonald Hamilton & Co., Ltd., agents

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 5 May 1942 · page 3

Horlicks, Ltd., 33 bdls caneite, 447 cs, 385 ctns malted milk Foggitt Jones, Ltd., 10 cs hams Nestles, Ltd., 134 cs chocolate, 286 cs…

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Export Manifests Victoria British India Steamer. Sailed Melbourne. Macdonald Hamilton & Co., agents

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 6 May 1942 · page 3

S Shippers, 75 bgs flour (2 tons), 11 cs canned fruit, 3 cs beans S Shippers, 274 pkgs frozen sundries BLUE STAR MOTORSHIP…

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Commonwealth Export Manifests New South Wales British Steamer. Sailed Sydney. Dalgety,& Co., Ltd., agents

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 6 May 1942 · page 2

Tozer, Kemsley & Milbourn, 15 crts baths, 228 etna end moat Nestles Anglo-Swiss, 854 cs malt extract…

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Export Manifests New South Wales British India Steamer. Sailed Sydney. Macdonald Hamilton & Co., Ltd., agents

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 6 May 1942 · page 3

Horlicks, Ltd., 33 bdis caneitc, 447 cs, 385 ctns malted milk Foggitt Jones, Ltd., 10 cs hams Nestles, Ltd., 134 cs chocolate, 286 cs…

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