• Katoomba Airfield (ICAO: YKAT) is an Australian airfield located in the town of Medlow Bath, New South Wales. The airport is 11.5 kilometres (7.1 mi) by...
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    Katoomba is the main town and council seat of the City of Blue Mountains in New South Wales, Australia, and is the administrative centre of Blue Mountains...
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    Jamison Valley. Katoomba Airfield is also located about 11.5 kilometres (7.1 mi) by road from the Katoomba Central Business District. The airfield is currently...
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    Mountains Line. The Great Western Highway is the main road access route. Katoomba Airfield, now disused except in emergency situations, is also located a few...
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  • Kavieng, aboard SS Katoomba, MV Neptuna and HMAT Zealandia,[citation needed] to defend their strategically important harbours and airfields. The objective...
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    New South Wales Aspendale Racecourse, Aspendale, Victoria Catalina Park, Katoomba, New South Wales Hume Weir Motor Racing Circuit, Albury-Wodonga, New South...
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    included: MS Sea Witch with crafted Curtiss P-40 Warhawk aircraft, HMAS Katoomba, MV Duntroon, USAT Willard A. Holbrook and USS Langley (CV-1) that was...
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    raids, attacked the town, ships in Darwin Harbour and the town's two airfields in an attempt to prevent the Allies from using them as bases to contest...
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    course of the Kokoda Track campaign, the two original airfields were improved, and five new airfields were developed. To make them operational, the engineers...
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    Transport Willard A. Holbrook and the Australian troop transports Duntroon and Katoomba, escorted by the light cruiser USS Phoenix. MS.5 departed Fremantle on...
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  • YHAY HXX Hay Airport Inverell YIVL IVR Inverell Airport Katoomba / Medlow Bath YKAT Katoomba Airport Kempsey YKMP KPS Kempsey Airport Lake Macquarie /...
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    Transport Willard A. Holbrook and the Australian transports Duntroon and Katoomba, which had been substituted for the withdrawn Mariposa, as convoy MS.5...
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    and three Australian corvettes, HMAS Deloraine, HMAS Lithgow, and HMAS Katoomba, sank I-124 off Darwin, the first sinking of a full-sized submarine with...
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  • YKAR (KQR) – Karara Airport – Karara, Western Australia YKAT – Katoomba Airport – Katoomba, New South Wales YKBL (KDB) – Kambalda Airport – Kambalda, Western...
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    escorted by the destroyer HMAS Arunta and corvettes HMAS Ballarat and Katoomba. Five cargo vessels and Arunta went into Port Moresby with the cargo vessels...
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  • against rock by the swelling sea. The sub called for help and soon HMAS Katoomba was dispatched to assist. The entire crew was rescued and the submarine...
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    Brisbane on 9 March and embarked from Brisbane on 10 March 1943 aboard HMAS Katoomba, the troops disembarking on 16 March at Port Moresby, after a journey at...
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  • The battalion subsequently returned in two contingents, both aboard the Katoomba. The main element arrived in Townsville in March, but one company was sent...
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    its climax as the Japanese advanced on Port Moresby. Embarking on the Katoomba in late August, they landed at Port Moresby on 9 September. Four days later...
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    On 20 January the Australian Bathurst-class corvettes HMAS Deloraine, Katoomba and Lithgow sank I-124 near Darwin. This is the only full-sized submarine...
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    South Australia. Proceeding in four drafts—one each on the transports Katoomba and Duntroon and two by rail—they were established at Woodside, in the...
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    Australia in drafts after September, with the first batch departing aboard Katoomba, bound for Brisbane. Those who were not eligible for discharge were transferred...
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  • Department of Air, Canberra. The Reverend Brother Benildus Joseph, of Katoomba, New South Wales. For services to education. James Gregory Gillies Kelleher...
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    same time, planning had begun for the construction of a larger public airfield at Mascot, with the Commonwealth Government purchasing 65 hectares for...
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  • Office, General Post Office, Sydney. Lilian Tenelba Amelia Hodgson, of Katoomba, New South Wales. For services rendered under the auspices of charitable...
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