MILITARY UNITS
AT DARWIN, NT
DURING WW2
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| 2 Flying Boat Maintenance Unit RAAF (moved from Lake Boga, VIC) | 2 Squadron RAAF | 3 Mobile Torpedo Maintenance Unit RAAF |
| 5 Radio Installation & Maintenance Unit RAAF |
5 Fighter
Sector Headquarters Berrimah, Darwin |
6 Bomb Disposal Unit (6 BDU) |
| 7 Repair & Salvage Unit RAAF
(7RSU) Darwin Civil Aerodrome |
7th
Australian Pigeon Section Australian Corps of Signals Pigeon Service |
8 Central Recovery Depot RAAF |
| 11
Squadron RAAF (Catalinas at Doctor's Gully) |
11 Signals Unit RAAF | 12 Squadron RAAF |
| 12 Aircraft Repair Depot RAAF (12ARD) (moved from Werribee) | 13 Squadron RAAF | 14 Heavy Anti-aircraft Battery |
| 17 Radio Station
US Army Signals Leanyer Receiving Station & Knuckey's Lagoon Transmitting Station |
20 Squadron RAAF | 23 Squadron RAAF |
| 34 Squadron RAAF | 42 Squadron RAAF | 43 Squadron RAAF |
| 49th
Fighter Group USAAF Hq & Hq Sqn 7th Fighter Squadron 8th Fighter Squadron 9th Fighter Squadron 49th Fighter Cont Sq |
52 OBU RAAF | 54 Squadron RAF |
| 66 Australian
Special Wireless Section Leanyer Wireless Site |
79 Squadron RAAF | 99 Squadron RAAF |
| 102nd Coastal Artillery AA Separate Battalion (SM), 41st CA AA Brigade, US Army | 121 Australian General Transport Company | 147th Field Artillery (Regiment of the South Dakota National Guard) |
| 148th Field Artillery (National Guard unit from Idaho) |
Detachment, 178th Sig Rep Co | Detachment 832nd Sig Serv Co (Rad) |
| Directorate of Air Transport | No.
1 Special Wireless Group (Canadian Military Unit) |
Northern
Territory Force (NT Force) |
|
Z Special Unit aka Lugger Maintenance Unit (at East Arm) |
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This page first produced 6 June 2000
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