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The US Air Force "Detachment 421" was centred there, and were granted Freedom of Entry to the Town in 1995. [13] In 1981, Australia and the United States agreed to station up to three B-52 and six KC-135 aircraft, supported by about 100 US Air Force personnel and associated equipment at RAAF Base Darwin. [14]
The base was placed on nuclear alert by the US Government during the Yom Kippur War in 1973 when US secretary of state Henry Kissinger issued a DEFCON 3 force-wide alert. Australian personnel at the base, the Australian Government and Prime Minister Gough Whitlam were not informed of the alert. [24]
The Australian Government announced in February 2020 that it would spend $1.1 billion upgrading RAAF Base Tindal to expand Australian and US air force capabilities into the Indo-Pacific region. Works will include extending its runway and increasing fuel storage so that US long-range bombers and Australian refuelling aircraft can use the base. [9]
There are no U.S. military bases in Australia, but the northern city of Darwin hosts a U.S. Marine Rotational Force six months of each year and the U.S. is building facilities for its marines and ...
Joint Defence Facility Nurrungar (JDFN) was an Earth station in Australia located on the edge of Island Lagoon, approximately 15 km south of Woomera, South Australia, operated jointly by the Australian Department of Defence and the United States Air Force from 1969 through to 1999. Its official area of emphasis was space-based surveillance, in ...
In the immediate aftermath of the World War II Japanese victory in the Philippines Campaign (1941–1942), the United States Army Air Forces Fifth Air Force withdrew to military airfields in Australia. From these bases, the USAAF, Australian and British Commenwealth air forces engaged the Japanese in the Dutch East Indies Campaign in 1942 ...
The base is currently operated under contract by Raytheon Australia. [13] On 15 July 2008, Australia and the US signed a bilateral treaty governing the future joint use of the facility for the next 25 years. [14] Harold E. Holt was identified as a potential Air Force Space Surveillance System (or Space Fence) site in 2011. [15]
Mareeba Airfield (IATA: MRG, ICAO: YMBA) is an airfield located 4.3 nautical miles (8.0 km; 4.9 mi) south of Mareeba, Queensland, Australia. Built in 1942 as a US Army Air Force base during World War II, the airfield had two runways, with a complement of taxiways, hardstands and a containment area. After the war, much of the airfield reverted ...