AMERICAN DROWNED
SYDNEY. Jan. 11. An American soldier on leave was drowned at a Sydney swimming resort. The American was a staff-sergeant, aged 34 years, who was caught in a strong undertow on the southern end of Bondi Beach. Life-savers brought him back to the beach after a difficult struggle against tiie undertow 100 yards out to sea. Eastern Suburbs ambulance officers assisted by life-savers applied resuscitation methods for some time without result.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21304, 17 January 1944, Page 5
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73AMERICAN DROWNED Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21304, 17 January 1944, Page 5
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