WWII Military Units,
HistoryNT,
Second World War, 1939-1945,
Date
0000-00-00,
Location
Venn Airfield,
Manbulloo,
Fenton,
Melville Bay,
Carson (Tindal),
Gorrie,
Nation of service
Australia,
Service
Air Force,
Service branch
Engineers,
Unit
8 Airfield Construction Squadron,
Alternative unit name
8 Mobile Works Squadron,
Parent unit
61 Works Wing (Airfield Construction),
Date arrived in NT
1943-05,
Date left the NT
1944-07,
History
The Unit was formed as 8 Mobile Works Squadron at Ascot Vale, Victoria, 1 January 1943. They worked at Venn, Fenton, Long, Manbulloo and Melville Bay. They left the Northern Territory, July 1944 before sailing for Morotai in the Moluccas, Tarakan Island off the coast of Borneo and Balikpapan on the east coast of the island of Borneo, in the Indonesian province of East Kalimantan. The Squadron was disbanded at Mt. Druitt, New South Wales, December 1945.,
Second World War, 1939-1945,
Royal Australian Air Force,
Airfield construction engineers,
8 Mobile Works Squadron,
61 Works Wing (Airfield Construction),
Air Force,
Australia,
8 Airfield Construction Squadron,
61 Works Wing (Airfield Construction),