ANTI-AIRCRAFT SEARCHLIGHT HQ CAMP
McMILLAN, DARWIN, NT
DURING WW2

visits since 1 January 2004

The HQ Camp for the Anti-aircraft Searchlight Batteries in Darwin was located at McMillan. It consisted of a series of corrugated iron huts of various sizes which were scattered in an irregular fashion in a clearing. It had a water tank installed on some high timber posts.

There were Anti-aircraft Searchlight batteries at the following locations around Darwin:-

• Peanut Farm
• Quarantine
• Ironstone
• Lee Point
• Nightcliffe
• Fanny's Bay
• Dipstone
• Leanyer
• Bagot
• Emery Point
• Dudley Point

REFERENCES

"Expose - A History of Searchlights in WWII"
by Noel F. Hill

Heaps of WW2 books available at Amazon.com

"Australia @ War"

This page first produced 1 January 2004

This page last updated 04 March 2004