Ballarat

MapLat 37° 32' 60S Long 143° 50' 60E 

US Marines Recouperation Area
The exhausted 1st Marine Division left Guadalcanal in December 1942, and were station in Melbourne to recoperate aftter the campaing in January 1943. The 11th Marines were station in Ballarat.

   Ballarat Airfield

Wartime airfield

Units based
41st FS (P-39) from Brisbane March 8 - 17, 1942 to Mount Gambier

 


 

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