Location
Located at Daly Waters.

Wartime History
Waypoint airfield on the "Brereton Route" the early months of 1942 for operations between Australia to the Java. It was a staging base for aircraft from Cloncurry Airfield and then to Darwin area airfields.

Daly Waters was upgraded as an RAAF operational air base during February 1942

RAAF Units based at Daly Waters
13 Squadron (Hudson)
12 Squadron
1 RSU
19th BG (B-17)

C-47B Dakota Serial Number A65-75
Crashed October 1956

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Last Updated
July 31, 2011