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Historical snapshot: Wacol

Brisbane’s overlooked wartime legacy: the forgotten Allied capital of Australia

Camp Columbia Army Huts ended up at Merthyr Bowls Club, at New Farm

The untold Dutch chapter of Brisbane’s wartime history

Forgotten allies: how Brisbane’s WWII history has faded from Dutch memory

Overlooked outpost: Brisbane and Camp Columbia in American WWII literature

UXO (Unexploded Ordnance) Blast Witness-Inala 1954

Brisbane City Streets of Remembrance – Community Input Invited

The Orliks of Boy Swallows Universe and the real migrant story of Camp Columbia

SIGSALY: Brisbane’s role in top-secret wartime communications

Mission X: Australia’s Forgotten Fleet in the Pacific War – Exhibition at Bongaree

Construction costs Camp Columbia £250,000

Wolston House – Wacol

WWII Sites in Brisbane

Sinking of the Centaur

Solemn ceremony to farewell fallen American soldiers

Radio Communication in Brisbane During World War II

Brisbane’s role in Allied naval efforts.

Richard Casey instrumental in selecting Brisbane as a key WWII base.

USAF Military Cemetery – Ipswich -Wreath laying for Dutch Javanese Soldiers

War Brides

Brisbane City Council in WWII

Gailes Golf Club opened its doors for the soldiers

Queensland Rail History – World War II

US to investigate 1943 blast Goodna schoolyard

Darra Deputation – complaint about US soldiers

Civic Restrictions in Brisbane during WWII

Complains about conduct of Negro Troops

Internment and Civil Alien Corps

The Volunteers Defence Corps

WWII – Queensland Schools Closed

UXO (Unexploded Ordnance) Blast Witness-Inala 1954

Joan Realia (nee Phillips/ Harrison) daughter of a US soldier

Dennis Hughes’ father – a private in the US Army,

Merv Bryant – a civilian employed by the US Army

Eugenie Blackney (nee Shand) survived the Japanese Camps in Java

Kelvin Lang- Armoury Driver for RAAF

Bill Bentson – studied at the US Officers School

Bryan “Tex” Grantham – US Army, 32nd infantry division-“The Red Arrows.” Brisbane 1942-45

Lona Grantham (nee Price) – WWII and Oxley

Ted Dunlop Remembering Oxley/Corinda during WWII

WWII stories from Redbank by Val Jackson

Patricia Metcalfe and Wim van Wely met at Camp Columbia

Allied Translator and Interpreter Section at Indooroopilly

A Goodna child’s view of WWII – by Claire Wilson (nee Evans)

Joan Lord (nee Murphy) – Wacol during WWII

Dick Holland – joined the Australian Imperial Force

Norm Bremner’s war memories

Mary Wilson (nee Hogan) – Americans in Darra

Les and Gwen Perry (nee Brown) – WWII memories from around Darra

Desley Lansbury (nee Scott) – WWII stories from Darra

Bob Eason – a teenager during WWII

Pino Zerlotti farm boy – exempt from military services

Noel Sparrow – remembering US soldiers

Milly Yarnold (nee Reed) – Memories From The War Years

Alido Vincenzi – delivered ice to Camp Columbia

Keith Brough – war recollections from around Archerfield

Fred Clark – memories of WWII in Richlands

Beryl Bull (nee Clark) – WWII stories from Richlands

Carmen Formigoni (née Cantoni) – Italian migrants during WWII

World War II Stories from Brisbane’s South West

Alex Borgeaud – WWII stories from Richlands

Australian Rocklea Munitions Factories – critical for the war effort in the Pacific

Mark Gehrke’s WWII artefacts from Brisbane

Gailes Emergency Landing Ground – WWII

The Mysterious Disappearance of Sharron Phillips near Camp Wacol (1986)

Central Bureau-Ascot: WWII Codebreakers in the Pacific

Brisbane: Strategic Heart of the Brutal New Guinea Campaign

From Camp Columbia HQ to Brisbane Correctional Centre

The Women of Camp Columbia

WWII Military facilities in South West Brisbane

From Camp Columbia to Wacol Army Camp later Sanananda Barracks

Proposed Industrial Garden City in Darra – 1918

Australia’s SWPA Advanced Land Headquarters at St Lucia

Royal Australian Navy in the Southwest Pacific WWII

Homes within the perimeter of Camp Columbia requisitioned by the Americans

Sultan of the Spice Island of Ternate at Camp Columbia

Pauleen Badke – a young woman’s wartime experience at Camp Columbia’s Officer Candidate School

Australia’s military commander Thomas Blainey moved his headquarters to Brisbane in 1942

The American-British-Dutch-Australian Command – 1942

Camp Columbia has new residents

Brisbane at war – other places to visit.

Australians in Netherlands East Indies first ever UN Peacekeepers

Stephen Simpson established the first military facility in the Wacol area.

Last remaining hut of the military barracks at Camp Columbia

Patricia Metcalfe – Typist, Wim van Wely – Dutch Motor Pool

Joan McConachy – secretary at the Dutch Army at Camp Columbia