Kalumburu Mission
Also known as Drysdale River Mission, or Drysdale River. Located one mile from Drysdale Airifeld.

Japanese Mission Against Kalumburu
September 17, 1943 the mission was hit by 21 Ki-48 Lilys from from Koepang and escorting fighters from Penfui. Today, there area still a lot of bomb craters about and bomb fragments from this mission.

Stan Gadja adds:
"The Lilys first worked over the airfield and then wheeled around and bombed and straffed the mission. Blew one end out of the church. They were dropping 65kg daisy-cutters and there are still many bomb craters all over the place. At the mission you can still see .303 bullet holes all over the church walls, timbers and gouges in the concrete floor. The organ stall has a projectile stuck in it. The Monastery has bits taken out of the stone walls from flying bomb fragments. I Spent quite a while there looking over these wondrous relics of the Japanese attack on this far-flung outpost way out in the bush in far NW WA. I slept there several nights and even did a bit of work for the people there."