The Redlands @ War

THE REDLANDS @ WAR

43rd Landing Craft Company, 3rd Water Transport Group, Corps of Royal Australian Engineers camped on Coochiemudlo Island	Capalaba Hotel, commandeered by the US Army	Collision of two Wirraways at Thornlands near Cleveland on 13 February 1942 4 airmen killed
Crash of a Qantas De Havilland DH-86 aircraft at foot of Mt. Petrie in August 1942 after flying over Redland Bay 11 killed - crash witnessed by Tom Blunt's father and wreckage found by him	Residences and Buildings commandeered by the Military in the Redlands Area during WW2	US Army Signal Corps - Redland Bay Golf Course Radio Communications site
US Army Signal Corps - Capalaba Radio Receiving site at Old Cleveland Road East	US Navy Gunnery School, Wellington Point	US Navy Merchant Marine Anti-aircraft Training Center, Wellington Point
US Way Station on North Stradbroke Island	Victoria Point Water Transport (Landing Craft) Training Centre	Women's Land Army Girls at Birkdale School of Arts building
Women's National Emergency Legion (WENL) formed at Redland Bay

Flying Boat Base
at Redland Bay
This was established after WWII

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This page first produced 14 June 2002

This page last updated 25 January 2020