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Old 19-02-2009, 03:04 PM
gary
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Originally Posted by wasyoungonce View Post
Lots of old Airstrips up that'a way. Batchelor, Fenton, Strauss, Coomalie creek, Daly Waters, Gorrie...lots...most on the Stuart Hwy.

Adelaide River war cemetery is worth a visit, very sombre.

Lots of Tunnels under Darwin as well.

Edit:

Forgot one I used to see often...Manbulloo, just outside Katherine.
Last time I looked, some still with large piles of countless discarded and broken
Coca Cola bottles beneath the trees near the runways, testimony to the
long waits in the heat for the RAAF and USAF bomber and fighter crews.
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