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The Australian Defence Force is made up of the Royal Australian Navy, Australian Army and the Royal Australian Air Force.These three military services have numerous military bases situated in all the States and Territories of Australia.
Hopkins Barracks, Puckapunyal – Puckapunyal Military Area; Bridges Barracks, Puckapunyal – Puckapunyal Military Area; Somme Barracks, Shepparton; Simpson Barracks, Watsonia – Melbourne; Maygar Barracks, Broadmeadows – Melbourne; Oakleigh Barracks, Oakleigh South – Melbourne; Ringwood Barracks, Ringwood East – Melbourne
Butterworth Air Base, Butterworth, Penang, Malaysia (formerly RAAF Base Butterworth). Some RAAF units were based at Butterworth Air Base as part of the Five Power Defence Arrangements. RAAF Base Cocos Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Indian Ocean. RAAF Base Tengah was collocated with RAF Tengah in the 1950s at what is now Tengah Airbase, Singapore.
Name of base changed to HMAS Tarangau. [1] HMAS Tarangau: Depot Papua New Guinea Dreger Harbour near Finschhafen, Los Negros Island 1946–1950; 1950–1974 Base at Dreger closed in 1950, and the base name and its personnel and equipment transferred to the former HMAS Seeadler at Manus Island. [1] HMAS Torrens: Depot South Australia Port Adelaide
The base is located adjacent to Crib Point on the Mornington Peninsula, south of the Melbourne City Centre, Victoria, Australia. The base is also an official bounded locality of the Shire of Mornington Peninsula and is the only naval base to have a specific listing in the Australian census .
RAAF Williams (ICAO: YMPC) is a Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) military air base set across two locations, at Point Cook and Laverton, located approximately 20 km (12 mi) south-west of the Melbourne central business district in Victoria, Australia.
As an active military base, Naval Air Station Melbourne contained 129 buildings and served more than 310 officers and 1,355 enlisted personnel of the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps. [2] During the station's operation, 63 personnel died in aerial accidents and two enlisted men died in ground-related accidents.
Naval Base Melbourne was a United States Navy base at Melbourne during World War II. Naval Base Melbourne became the South West Pacific Area Command Headquarters after the 1941 invasion of the Philippines. General Douglas MacArthur, after escaping the Philippines, set up his Headquarters after his arrival on 21 March 1942. MacArthur was ...