Corunna Downs Airfield
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use Australian English Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Corunna Downs Airfield was a secret Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) base at Corunna Downs, Script error: No such module "convert". south of Marble Bar in the Pilbara region of Western Australia during World War II.[1][2][3] In 1942 the RAAF built a secret airbase on Corunna Downs Station, adjacent to the 1891 homestead. The airfield, created especially for B-24 Liberator long-range heavy bombers, comprised two intersecting bitumen runways, a north–south (165°) runway Script error: No such module "convert". and an east–west (107°) runway Script error: No such module "convert"..[1]
No. 73 Operational Base Unit was responsible for operating the airfield during World War II.[4]
The RAAF No. 24 Squadron, No 25 Squadron and the United States Army Air Corps 380th Bomb Group flew long range missions against Japanese shipping and base facilities in the Dutch East Indies.[1][5]
The base has been abandoned since World War II.[6]
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