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RAAF Operations Building Site

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RAAF Operations Building Site is a heritage-listed command post at Green Street, West End, City of Townsville, Queensland, Australia. [1]

48 relations: Allied Works Council, Asian and Pacific theatre of World War I, Attack on Pearl Harbor, Australian Flying Corps, Battle of Midway, Battle of Singapore, Battle of the Coral Sea, Bombing of Darwin, Brisbane, British Malaya, Charters Towers, City of Townsville, Command and control, Darwin, Northern Territory, Dotswood, Queensland, Garbutt, Queensland, Government of Australia, Government of Queensland, Gulf of Carpentaria, Hong Kong, John Melton Black, North Coast railway line, Queensland, Operations and Signals Bunker, Stuart, Overhang (architecture), Philippines, Point Cook, Victoria, Port Moresby, Port of entry, Proposed Japanese invasion of Australia during World War II, Queensland, Queensland Heritage Register, RAAF Base East Sale, RAAF Base Townsville, Rabaul, Reinforced concrete, Robert Towns, Rockhampton, Royal Australian Air Force, State Emergency Service, Stuart, Queensland, Supreme Court of Queensland, Town Common, Queensland, Townsville, United States Army Air Forces, Victoria (Australia), West End, Queensland, World War I, World War II.

Allied Works Council

The Allied Works Council was an organisation set up to oversee and organise military construction works in Australia during World War II.

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Asian and Pacific theatre of World War I

The Asian and Pacific theatre of World War I consisted of various naval battles and the Allied conquest of German colonial possessions in the Pacific Ocean and China.

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Attack on Pearl Harbor

The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory, on the morning of December 7, 1941.

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Australian Flying Corps

The Australian Flying Corps (AFC) was the branch of the Australian Army responsible for operating aircraft during World War I, and the forerunner of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF).

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Battle of Midway

The Battle of Midway was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II which occurred between 4 and 7 June 1942, only six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea.

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Battle of Singapore

The Battle of Singapore, also known as the Fall of Singapore, was fought in the South-East Asian theatre of World War II when the Empire of Japan invaded the British stronghold of Singapore—nicknamed the "Gibraltar of the East".

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Battle of the Coral Sea

The Battle of the Coral Sea, fought from 4 to 8 May 1942, was a major naval battle between the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) and naval and air forces from the United States and Australia, taking place in the Pacific Theatre of World War II.

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Bombing of Darwin

The Bombing of Darwin, also known as the Battle of Darwin, on 19 February 1942 was the largest single attack ever mounted by a foreign power on Australia.

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Brisbane

Brisbane is the capital of and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland, and the third most populous city in Australia.

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British Malaya

The term British Malaya loosely describes a set of states on the Malay Peninsula and the island of Singapore that were brought under British control between the 18th and the 20th centuries.

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Charters Towers

Charters Towers is a town in northern Queensland, Australia.

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City of Townsville

The City of Townsville is an Australian local government area (LGA) located in North Queensland, Australia.

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Command and control

Command and control or C2 is a "set of organizational and technical attributes and processes...

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Darwin, Northern Territory

Darwin is the capital city of the Northern Territory of Australia.

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Dotswood, Queensland

Dotswood is a locality in the Charters Towers Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Garbutt, Queensland

Garbutt is a residential and industrial suburb in the City of Townsville, in northern Queensland, Australia.

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Government of Australia

The Government of the Commonwealth of Australia (also referred to as the Australian Government, the Commonwealth Government, or the Federal Government) is the government of the Commonwealth of Australia, a federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy.

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Government of Queensland

The Government of Queensland, also referred to as the Queensland Government, is the Australian state democratic administrative authority of Queensland.

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Gulf of Carpentaria

The Gulf of Carpentaria is a large, shallow sea enclosed on three sides by northern Australia and bounded on the north by the Arafura Sea (the body of water that lies between Australia and New Guinea).

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Hong Kong

Hong Kong (Chinese: 香港), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, is an autonomous territory of China on the eastern side of the Pearl River estuary in East Asia.

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John Melton Black

John Melton Black (1830–1919) was a pioneer of Townsville, Queensland, Australia.

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North Coast railway line, Queensland

The North Coast railway line is a narrow gauge railway line in Queensland, Australia.

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Operations and Signals Bunker, Stuart

Operations and Signals Bunker is a heritage-listed signal station off Stuart Drive, Stuart, City of Townsville, Queensland, Australia.

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Overhang (architecture)

An overhang in architecture is a protruding structure which may provide protection for lower levels.

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Philippines

The Philippines (Pilipinas or Filipinas), officially the Republic of the Philippines (Republika ng Pilipinas), is a unitary sovereign and archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.

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Point Cook, Victoria

Point Cook is the home of RAAF Base Williams, Point Cook, the birthplace of the Royal Australian Air Force, and is the current home of the RAAF Museum.

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Port Moresby

(Tok Pisin: Pot Mosbi), also referred to as Pom City or simply Moresby, is the capital and largest city of Papua New Guinea and the largest city in the South Pacific outside of Australia and New Zealand.

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Port of entry

In general, a port of entry (POE) is a place where one may lawfully enter a country.

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Proposed Japanese invasion of Australia during World War II

In early 1942 elements of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) proposed an invasion of Australia.

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Queensland

Queensland (abbreviated as Qld) is the second-largest and third-most populous state in the Commonwealth of Australia.

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Queensland Heritage Register

The Queensland Heritage Register is a heritage register, a statutory list of places in Queensland, Australia that are protected by Queensland legislation, the Queensland Heritage Act 1992.

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RAAF Base East Sale

RAAF Base East Sale is a Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) military air base and training school, located in, Victoria, Australia.

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RAAF Base Townsville

RAAF Base Townsville (formerly RAAF Base Garbutt) is a Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) air base located in, west of Townsville in Queensland, Australia.

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Rabaul

Rabaul is a township in East New Britain province, on the island of New Britain, in the country of Papua New Guinea.

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Reinforced concrete

Reinforced concrete (RC) (also called reinforced cement concrete or RCC) is a composite material in which concrete's relatively low tensile strength and ductility are counteracted by the inclusion of reinforcement having higher tensile strength or ductility.

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Robert Towns

Robert Towns (10 November 1794 – 11 April 1873) was an Australian merchant, shipowner, pastoralist, politician, whaler, civic leader and founder of Townsville, Queensland.

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Rockhampton

Rockhampton is a city in the Rockhampton Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Royal Australian Air Force

The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), formed March 1921, is the aerial warfare branch of the Australian Defence Force (ADF).

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State Emergency Service

The State Emergency Service (SES) is the name used by a number volunteer organisations in Australia that provide emergency help during and after declared (natural or otherwise) disasters, typically flood, storm or tsunami.

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Stuart, Queensland

Stuart is a rural suburb of the City of Townsville, Queensland, Australia.

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Supreme Court of Queensland

The Supreme Court of Queensland is the highest court in the Australian State of Queensland.

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Town Common, Queensland

Town Common is a suburb in the City of Townsville, Queensland, Australia.

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Townsville

Townsville is a city on the north-eastern coast of Queensland, Australia.

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United States Army Air Forces

The United States Army Air Forces (USAAF or AAF), informally known as the Air Force, was the aerial warfare service of the United States of America during and immediately after World War II (1939/41–1945), successor to the previous United States Army Air Corps and the direct predecessor of the United States Air Force of today, one of the five uniformed military services.

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Victoria (Australia)

Victoria (abbreviated as Vic) is a state in south-eastern Australia.

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West End, Queensland

West End is an inner-city suburb of southern Brisbane.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAAF_Operations_Building_Site

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