Livingstone Airfield
Livingstone Airfield | |||||||||||
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| Location | Livingstone, Northern Territory, Australia | ||||||||||
| Built | 13 April 1942 | ||||||||||
| In use | 1942–1945 | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 12°41′19.5″S 131°5′21.36″E / 12.688750°S 131.0892667°E | ||||||||||
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  Livingstone Airfield Location of airport in Northern Territory | |||||||||||
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Livingstone Airfield (34 mile) was an airfield at what is now Livingstone, Northern Territory, Australia during World War II.
The airfield was built by the
Cox Peninsula to the west of Darwin, Northern Territory
on 4 April 1942.
Units based at Livingstone Airfield
- 49th Fighter Group, Fifth Air Force, United States Army Air Forces
- No. 14 Repair & Salvage Unit RAAF
- No. 54 Squadron RAF
- No. 77 Squadron RAAF (Kittyhawk)
- No. 457 Squadron RAAF (Spitfire)
- No. 548 Squadron RAF
- US Army
- 161st Light Anti-aircraft Battery, Australian Army
- H Company, 135th US Medical Regiment, US Army
- Security Guard Unit RAAF
Japanese bombing raids on Livingstone Airfield
- 26 September 1942 (05:22 am)
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