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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1944

523 stories in Sydney's papers · page 16 of 27

Wary Allied Advance Through Jap Wreckage

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 18 July 1944 · page 7

ADVANCING through wreckage of a Jap plane, American soldiers approach die Kamiri airstrip on Noemfoor Is. (off Dutch New Guinea). The soldiers are on the alert for snipers.--U.S. Signal Corps photo…

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Commonwealth Export Manifests New South Wales. Steamer. Sailed Sydney. John Darling & Sons, Agents

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 19 July 1944 · page 2

S Shipper, 132,014 bgs flour, 1 pkg diamond brooch (Complete.) MOTORSHIP…

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Wrecked Japanese Bomber

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 19 July 1944 · page 9

The wreckage of a Japanese bomber which failed in a suicide attack on an Allied ship at Blak.—D of I. photo…

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Wrecks Make Island Look Like Scrapheap

Daily Mirror · Saturday 22 July 1944 · page 2

CANBERRA, Saturday. --Japanese barges wrecked by R.A.A.F. Bean fighters and Beauforts and American P.T. boats, on the shore of Muschu…

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Seaman Acts As "Human Plug" in Smashed Lifeboat

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 23 July 1944 · page 4

A merchant seaman who acted as a human plug in a smashed lifeboat for six hours has arrived at an Australian…

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Child's Ordeal Under Wreckage

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 25 July 1944 · page 5

A little girl who was rescued after being buried under wreckage for nearly three hours when a robot bomb damaged a house in southern England…

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Commonwealth Exports Manifests New South Wales. Steamer. Sailed Sydney. John Darling & Sons, Agents

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 26 July 1944 · page 2

S Shipper, 132,014 bgs flour, 1 pkg diamond brooch (Complete.) MOTORSHIP…

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Liberty Ship Wrecked

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 26 July 1944 · page 4

Highlighted by self-sacrificing aid given shipwreked survivors by Scottish "crofters," both men and women, the story of the worst…

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Railyards Wrecked by Allied Bombers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 26 July 1944 · page 4

Rolling stock and tracks destroyed by Allied bombing in the railway yards at Carentan, Normandy, before the town was captured by American forces…

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Abbeville Comes Ashore Abbeville's Double Meal After Sea Trip

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 27 July 1944 · page 16

NEWCASTLE, Wednesday.--Abbeville's sea trip from Sydney to Newcastle last night acted like a tonic. Abbeville is hot favorite for Saturday's Cameron Handicap…

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Digger Loses Hard-won Land Govt. Grab At Quarter Cost; Plans Wrecked

The Sun · Thursday 27 July 1944 · page 5

A moving story of an old digger's struggle to buy and hold a block of land for his daughter's future home, only to see it compulsorily resumed by the State Housing Commission at a quarter of its cost, was told today by Mr. C. O…

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Robot-Bomb Wrecks Restaurant

The Sun · Saturday 29 July 1944 · page 1

LONDON, Saturday. --A flying bomb falling in a street in Southern England yesterday killed…

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Commonwealth Export Manifests New South Wales. Steamer. Sailed Sydney. Oceanic Steamship Co., Agents

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 2 August 1944 · page 2

S Shipper, 18 bls raw rabbit skins (Complete.) MOTOR VESSEL. Sailed Sydney…

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Overseas Export Manifests From Interstate Ports South Australia P. & O. STEAMER. Sailed Adelaide. Elder, Smith & Co., Ltd., Agents

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 3 August 1944 · page 4

Govt. Produce Department, 28,900 cres pork Commonwealth of Australia, 3181 bxs butter…

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Overseas Export Manifests From Interstate Ports South Australia P. & O. STEAMER. Sailed Adelaide. Elder, Smith & Co., Ltd., Agents

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 4 August 1944 · page 4

Govt. Produce Department, 28,900 cres pork Commonwealth of Australia, 3184 bxs butter…

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Overseas Export Manifests From Interstate Ports South Australia P. & O. STEAMER. Sailed Adelaide. Elder, Smith & Co., Ltd., Agents

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 5 August 1944 · page 4

Govt. Produce Department, 28,900 cres pork Commonwealth of Australia, 3184 bxs butter…

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Overseas Export Manifests From Interstate Ports New South Wales Steamer. Sailed Sydney. American Trading & Shipping Co. Pty., Ltd., Agents

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 7 August 1944 · page 4

S Shippers, 108,879 sks flour (Complete.) MOTOR VESSEL. Sailed Sydney…

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Shoppers Killed When Robot Wrecks Store

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 7 August 1944 · page 2

LONDON, Sunday.--Many people were killed yesterday in a south of England town when a German flying-bomb exploded on a department store crowded with shoppers…

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U-Boat Captain Steps Ashore As Prisoner Of War

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 8 August 1944 · page 3

STILL WEARING his Iron Cross and Swastika decoration, former captain of a U-boat steps ashore, an Allied prisoner of war…

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U-Boat Captain Steps Ashore As Prisoner Of War

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 8 August 1944 · page 3

STILL WEARING his Iron Cross and Swastika decoration, former captain of a U-boat steps ashore, an Allied prisoner of war…

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