Territory Stories

Coomalie Airfield Open day 2011

Details:

Title

Coomalie Airfield Open day 2011,

Other title

Darren Clark,

Photographer

Clark, Darren,

Photo number

PH0875/0066,

Collection

Darren Clark Collection., PictureNT, PictureNT,

Date

2011-08-15,

Location

Coomalie Creek,

Description

World War 2 jeep and aeroplane. Coomalie Creek airfield was a World War 2 airfield. The North West Area Headquarters were located approximately 6 kms south along the Stuart Highway and Coomalie Creek was located only 10 miles from Batchelor Airfield. During World War 2 the RAAF Mosquitos and Beaufighters were flying out of Coomalie Airfield bound for Timor and Indonesia on bombing and reconnaissance missions. The airfield still exists today and is part of Coomalie Farm owned by Richard Luxton. Every year in August the airfield is opened to the public for the long weekend to commemorate VJ Day on the 15th of August, which marked the end of the Second World War.,

Subject

aeroplanes, jeeps (military),

Digital format

3333 x 5000 pixels : 24bpp ; 50.02Mb.,

Format

1 photograph : digital, col.,

File type

image/tiff.,

Use

Attribution International 4.0 (CC BY 4.0),

Copyright owner

Library & Archives NT,

License

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/,

Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/245086,

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/589643