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Abaixo estão algumas fotos da Época da guerra aqui na AustrÁlia que um colega me passou por email.
Photographs taken in North Queensland on the Atherton Tablelands, and other areas as well as one in Toowoomba. Bulimba is a suburb of Brisbane. Motor cycle riders in military uniforms, lined up outside a store in the main street of Giru.
Section of the Rollingstone Army base known as the Gun Park, 1943
Soldiers on leave, departing from Townsville Railway Station, ca. 1943 for Melbourne after serving in New Guinea
1943 Rollingstone. The Wiles Double Oven Stationary Cooker was a 100 pound pressure steam boiler, six large steamers, two ovens and two top warming ovens, roasting pans and slides, a 40 gallon hot water tank and a 15 gallon tea urn.
U.S. Army kitchen in an Australian bush camp. One cook turns rissoles on the gas stove and the other turn the grinder affixed to the wooden, kitchen table.
Torres Strait Light Infantry Battalion, 1945
Improvised bush showers at the Rollingstone army camp, Queensland, 1943
Lockheed Lightning F4 Photo Reconnaissance plane probably with the 8th Photo Recon. Squadron, USAF based in Townsville, April - October, 1942
De Haviland Dragon crashed into a home at 32 Peel Street, Mackay on Saturday 20 July 1946
Mosquito photo reconnaissance aircraft. Charters Towers 1944
Brisbane pic: Kitty Hawks ready for re-assembly. This photo was possibly taken at Bulimba
In 1944 Liberator was carrying Australian and U.S. servicemen to Brisbane for their leave. It overshot Runway 33 at Rockhampton Airfield and crashed. All on board were killed. They are buried in the Rockhampton War Cemetery.
Brisbane River, 25 March 1941
