CMPs at Truscott Airbase, AUS

[Stan Gajda]

Hello All,

I spent a week at Truscott with John Hardy in July 1980.

I arrived by Cessna with two other guys and we landed on the SW end where there was just enough room to put the plane down. John Bellfield and John Hardy were already there and we from the Cessna were taken by Bellfield to the camp on the beach on the eastern side of Anjo.

The place had not been touched for years. There were fuses and bomb tails and .50 caliber ammo in many places. There were still some guns in the B-24 wreck.

The vehicles as shown on this forum seem unchanged. There was wreckage of a Japanese Dinah airplane in the bush just south of the SW end of the runway.

The C-53 horizontal stabilizers were there as seen today.

I returned to Derby WA by taking a boat from the landing to Kalumburu and then ridin on the back of the supply semi 400-odd miles along the dirt road with Mick Gudjeri.

A relic of that trip can still be seen today at the WA Aviation Museum at Bullcreek in Perth in the form of a large wing section from the Dinah.

Stan Gajda
Kolonia, Pohnpe, Micronesia