COCOS ISLAND AIRFIELD
DEFENCE PLAN OF AUSTRALIA
(Rec. 9.30 p.m.) PERTH. January 21. A huge airfield construction project at Cocos Island has been undertaken to protect Western Australia, said the Minister of the Navy and Air (Mr W. McMahon) today. Western Australia had a leading role in Indian Ocean defence, Mr McMahon said. The airfield was capable of taking any known kind of aircraft and in case of emergency Neptune long-range bombers could be based there.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 26945, 22 January 1953, Page 7
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