JAPANESE RECCE FLIGHT OVER SWANBOURNE, WA
DURING 1943

Rosemary Shepherd, an AWAS who was based at the searchlight Unit at Swanbourne in Western Australia, remembers that their unit spotted a Japanese reconnaissance aircraft in broad daylight in 1943. They then tracked its course by radar.

There were many other reported sightings of strange aircraft flying over Western Australia during World War II.

Japanese Recce flights over Australia during WW2

REFERENCES

Lynne Cairns, "Fremantle's Secret Fleets - Allied submarines based in Western Australia during World War II", Western Australian Maritime Museum, 1995.

"Fremantle Gazette", 5 October 1993, page 36 (can someone send me a copy of this article please)

Can anyone help me with more information?

"Australia @ War" WWII Research Products

This page first produced 1 November 2000

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