RAAF Base Townsville
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RAAF Base Townsville is a Royal Australian Air Force air base located in Garbutt, 2 nautical miles west of Townsville in Queensland, Australia. It is the headquarters for No. 1 Wing Australian Air For
RAAF Boeing C-17 Globemaster III at Townsville airport in 2010.
Two Australian Lockheed Hudsons in 1940
Curtiss P-40 Warhawks USAF
Servicing party working on a DAP Beaufort bomber aircraft of No. 7 Squadron RAAF
North-Eastern Area Command
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North-Eastern Area Command was one of several geographically based commands raised by the Royal Australian Air Force during World War II. For most of its existence it controlled units based in central
Air Commodore Lukis (centre), with Group Captain Garing (left), hands over North-Eastern Area Command to Group Captain Cobby in August 1942
No. 11 Squadron Catalina at Port Moresby
Air Commodore Summers (left), who succeeded Air Commodore Cobby as AOC North-Eastern Area Command, with staff in Townsville, May 1944
Flight Lieutenant Les Jackson (second left), brother of Squadron Leader John Jackson, with fellow pilots of No. 75 Squadron in Port Moresby, August 1942