Flail Tank Gets Ashore
Daily Mirror · Tuesday 2 January 1945 · page 6
LIKE A PREHISTORIC MONSTER emerging from primeval swamps, a flail tank, coming from a landing craft, ploughs through the mud of a Walcheren beach during the Allied landing on the island on November 1. Invasion of the island cleared German obstruction in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Swedish Steamer Sunk In Baltic Waters
Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 3 January 1945 · page 2
News received from London states that the second Swedish ship sunk in the Baltic since the Germans, declared it a zone of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Commonwealth Export Manifests New South Wales. Steamer. Sailed Sydney. Gilchrist, Watt & Sanderson Pty,, Ltd., Agents
Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 3 January 1945 · page 2
S Shippers, 3102 sides pork, 1241 cs sausages, 4718 ctns soap, 65,996 cs asstd groceries, 61,238 bgs flour, 647 cs cornflour, 484 cs tinned hams, 100…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →U.S. Planned To Wreck Japan By Earthquakes From Our Staff Correspondent
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 January 1945 · page 3
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.—A plan to shake Japan's key industrial cities into ruins by artificially-induced earthquakes…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wrecking the Rex Decorations for Four Pilots
Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 9 January 1945 · page 2
Four pilots from the rocket-firing Beaufighter squadron of Mediterranean Allied Coastal Air Force, which made the initial…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Grim Ordeal For Girl Pinned In Bus Wreck
Daily Mirror · Tuesday 9 January 1945 · page 5
Her right leg and ankle fractured, an 11-years-old girl was pinned for nearly an hour in a wrecked bus when it crashed into a ditch in Campbelltown Rd., between Liverpool and Glenfield, today…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Grim Ordeal For Girl Pinned In Bus Wreck
Daily Mirror · Tuesday 9 January 1945 · page 5
Her right leg and ankle fractured, an 11-years-old girl was pinned for nearly an hour in a wrecked bus when it crashed into a ditch in Campbelltown Rd., between Liverpool and Glenfield, today…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Commonwealth Export Manifests New South Wales. Steamer. Sailed Sydney. Gilchrist, Watt & Sanderson Pty., Ltd., Agents
Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 10 January 1945 · page 2
S Shippers, 3102 sides pork, 1241 cs sausages, 4718 ctns soap, 65,996 cs aastd groceries, 61,238 bgs flour, 647 cs cornflour, 484 cs tinned hams, 100…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Old Swedish Steamer Built 84 Years Ago
Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 11 January 1945 · page 2
The iron steamer Engso, a veteran of the Swedish merchant fleet, has been sold by the Westeras-Torshalla Angbats A/B.,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Thirty Dreadful Days In Lifeboat
The Sun · Saturday 13 January 1945 · page 3
One of the few survivors of a dreadful lifeboat ordeal in the Indian Ocean, Douglas Mitchell, young chant seaman, from…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Captors Give German Last Look at Wrecked Plank
The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 13 January 1945 · page 2
CAPTURED GERMAN PILOT surveys the wreckage of his Messerschmitt brought down by U.S. antiaircraft fire in eastern France. Eight planes attacking with, his in at formation of 12 were also shot down.--Official U.S. radiophoto…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"Vested Interests" Wrecked Air Talks
The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 14 January 1945 · page 32
NEW YORK, Sat. -- Vested interests helped to destroy hopes of international agreement at the recent air conference in Chicago, Australian Air Minister Drakeford said today…
Continued on Trove, page 32 →Commonwealth Export Manifests New South Wales. Steamer. Sailed Sydney. Gilchrist, Watt & Sanderson Pty., Ltd., Agents
Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 17 January 1945 · page 2
S Shippers, 3102 sides pork, 1241 cs sausages, 4718 ctns soap, 65,996 cs asstd groceries, 61,238 bgs flour, 647 cs cornflour, 484 cs tinned hams, 100…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Salvage From Wreck Taken Civilians Suspected
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 18 January 1945 · page 4
PERTH, Wednesday.—Portion of the cargo of a Greek-owned ship, the Michael J. Gaulandris, which was wrecked on a reef off…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wreckage After Dinghy Tragedy
The Sun · Thursday 18 January 1945 · page 5
MELBOURNE, Thursday. -- A cream and green oar tipped with leather, which was washed ashore in port Phillip Bay at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Viscount Went To Luna Park First Night Ashore
The Sun · Friday 19 January 1945 · page 7
On his first night ashore from the British battleship Howe, which was recently in Sydney, Lieut.-Commander Viscount Curzon went to Luna Park. To visit a city with street lights burning, after years of blackout,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Salvage From Wreck. Disappearance Of Some Reported
Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 19 January 1945 · page 2
It is reported from Perth that a portion of the cargo of a Greek-owned ship, the Michael J. Goulandris, 6669 tons register, which…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Explosion Wrecks Floor Of Factory
The Daily Telegraph · Friday 19 January 1945 · page 4
An explosion shattered part of the third floor of Standard Telephones and Cables building, Botany Road, Alexandria, between 12.30 and 1 p.m. yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fodder Famine Wrecks Food "Planning"
Smith's Weekly · Saturday 20 January 1945 · page 1
AUSTRALIA, which was to be the larder of the South-West Pacific, the feeder of millions, faces the most critical food shortage since the early days of settlement. It's not for want of livestock, which is plentiful. Cause is a fodder and stock feed famine, brought about as much…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Old Wreck May Solve Mystery
Daily Mirror · Saturday 20 January 1945 · page 8
BOSTON.--New England's No. 1 marine mystery may be solved when divers inspect the wreckage of the ill - starred…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →