CMPs at Truscott Airbase, AUS

[Mike K]

Some explaining for our non aussie members,

The base was and is in a remote location on the NW coast, it was completely built from the sea . No roads existed then and now . They shipped in everything by barges . I believe it was a major staging strip for B24 raids into the Dutch East indies . The Libs would fuel up and load bombs and fly on from Truscott .

A air force vet told me a lot of misfits were posted there as punishment and a few of them went troppo ... the remoteness got to them and they took to the hills .

Some very odd things happened up there along that coast. A Jap recce floatplane landed and abducted a priest from a small vessel .. he was sadly decapitated by his captors later on. A DC 3 was shot down by the Broom raiders as they were returning .. the survivors all had a harrowing time on the remote coast .. the remanis of the DC 3 are still there to this day .
Mike