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Links articles that cover the 1939 fires, and the post-fire actions related to salvage and regeneration in particluar
 
Title
1939 Salvage - Minister Lind Speech. doc0001
McKinty Jim - Firefighter 1939
Ordeal by Fire - Noble. doc0110
Post 1939 Fires - Recovery & Salvage
Report of the Royal Commission into the 1939 Fires. doc0127
The 1939 Bushfires - Sun News-Pictorial. doc0161
The 1939 Fires
The Disastrous Forest Fires of January 1939, in Victoria. doc0169

The FCRPA

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Australian Forest History Society
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