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Nov. 20, 1945: HMS NABBERLEY, at Bankstown airport, Sydney - Jim Dixey Collection, courtesy Tony Drury.
5425. Showing technical facilities and barracks at the BPF's aircraft despatch base, HMS NABBERLEY, this is sent to us by Tony Drury - creator of the MONAB [Mobile Naval Air Base] Story website - who indicates that the Admiralty works programme has resumed at the base with the building of a further hangar.
We had a pic of the MONAB squadrons at Nowra, HMS NABBINGTON, back at pic NO. 3182, which makes an interesting combination with these images, indicating the massive increase in military activity and equipment around Sydney between 1940 and 1945, and its developmental impact on Australia's postwar years. Pic 3182 is here:
www.flickr.com/photos/41311545@N05/5100992482/
Bankstown Airport , first planned in 1929, is now of course the Sydney region's largest general aviation airport, a direct result of wartime development, first by the RAAF, then by the United States Army Air Force, and finally by the British Pacific Fleet which took it over in 1945 up to March 1946.
Similarly, the BPF development of Nowra Airfield left a well-founded Naval Air Station for the RAN, HMAS ALBATROSS.
Photo Jim Dixey collection via www.royalnavyresearcharchive.org.uk/ and the related website 'The MONAB Story, here: www.royalnavyresearcharchive.org.uk/MONABS/index.htm
Nov. 20, 1945: HMS NABBERLEY, at Bankstown airport, Sydney - Jim Dixey Collection, courtesy Tony Drury.
5425. Showing technical facilities and barracks at the BPF's aircraft despatch base, HMS NABBERLEY, this is sent to us by Tony Drury - creator of the MONAB [Mobile Naval Air Base] Story website - who indicates that the Admiralty works programme has resumed at the base with the building of a further hangar.
We had a pic of the MONAB squadrons at Nowra, HMS NABBINGTON, back at pic NO. 3182, which makes an interesting combination with these images, indicating the massive increase in military activity and equipment around Sydney between 1940 and 1945, and its developmental impact on Australia's postwar years. Pic 3182 is here:
www.flickr.com/photos/41311545@N05/5100992482/
Bankstown Airport , first planned in 1929, is now of course the Sydney region's largest general aviation airport, a direct result of wartime development, first by the RAAF, then by the United States Army Air Force, and finally by the British Pacific Fleet which took it over in 1945 up to March 1946.
Similarly, the BPF development of Nowra Airfield left a well-founded Naval Air Station for the RAN, HMAS ALBATROSS.
Photo Jim Dixey collection via www.royalnavyresearcharchive.org.uk/ and the related website 'The MONAB Story, here: www.royalnavyresearcharchive.org.uk/MONABS/index.htm