Good Story mate. Ion Idriess is one of my favourite authors. Outlaws of The Lieopolds and 40 fathoms deep another 2 great Nor West books.

Cheers

Gidday Bluestorm, great old photos,

I'll have a stab at placing a few, some may argue, that;s life

1..for my money, it;s the once called Government Aircraft Factory @ Fishermens

Bend Melbourne an the banks of the Yarra. Lined up on Google Earth it seems to fit.

Later became Holden/GMH factory. Was used

in early days of motor racing and drag racing. I spent some wasted youth there

around 1960, witnessed first 150mph pass at quarter mile and also first Aussie

200mph pass, think Eddy Thomas was victor in both cases on the old airstrip

2... camouflage nets over something like fruit or food production or personal camp

4... maybe the old Submarine base at Fremantle building could hold at least 2 subs

under roof for repair was at Google Earth 30 02 19 77s.....115 45 17 60e. When

it was decided to pull building down 25 year ago I was working for a Jandicott

company who tendered and won to remove all internal fittings so spent a couple of

weeks on site, impressive building that not many people knew the history of, very

interesting. Now site is all condominiums but buildings resembles old shed shape

so maybe in general some interesting war time photos of sensitive government

establishments, thruout Australia camouflaged, maybe exercise to show big wigs

what had been done re war effort, One shows camp in foreground all heavily netted

to stop enemy from seeing , could be big army camp that they had in St Kilda

Melbourne, thanks for sharing.

Islands Of Angry Ghosts by Hugh Edwards.
and Shark Bay Legends by Russell Cooper.

Capricornia by Xavier Herbert

They should make that into a movie for generation Y

Here is my other story of a Darwin love, If you understand the old
Darwin before "Tracy" after WW2. My friend wrote this of his sister
working in Darwin. who's other sister was a nurse on the "Centur"
torpedoed off Qld coast and only just located. The Darwin sister
tragical died two years ago, and my mate died in 1987. some more
information of him can be found on my website walkaboutjoe.com...........enjoy....