DREAM TIME - A WAR STORY

Thanks Doug,

Managed to make a trip to NT in August.
Had read some history of WWII, and the NT, but it has always been a bit misleading as to the significance.
Being there, even for a little while, helped in understanding.
And when you drive down the highway, with those brown signs, this that way and something else in another direction, it makes you realise how big the build up was.
Trying to remember, how many Japanese planes were shot down over Aussie terra firma, 68 or something? Over an 18 month period?

And history isn't taught in schools any more!

So keep it coming. Enjoy every one. Good background to a trip.

Like that stuff Doug.

My father in law was up there then digging foxholes before he got his wings, and this is how he first really got to believe there was a war on.

After a 2 week long train trip up from melbourne they were posted some tens of Km south of darwin , all they did was dig foxholes all day on a forgotten backwater airstrip and wave to the odd plane which they could see in the distance as it approached Darwin.
Waving at the odd plane relieved the boredom apparently.

One day they saw a whole stack of planes on the horizon heading for darwin and they all began to wave and were happy that more support was on the way , and maybe some supplies as they only
had 1 rifle per three soldiers and 3 rounds for that rifle.

Anyway , waving away madly trying to attract attention and an officer came up, turned white when he saw the formation , and said to the diggers, "Dig like Hell, boys, we don't have that many planes in our whole air force".

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