Re: "Was there a Battle for Australia?" , did the yanks " save us

DBDriver wrote:
> Felix D. wrote:
>> 
> HMAS Australia (Cruiser - heavily damaged) and HMAS Hobart (Light 
> Cruiser) with sup****t craft were there as sup****t for the US fleet. US 
> and Aussie pilots flew bombers from Nth Qld (definitely from Mareeba - 
> possibly Townsville).
> 
> My father saw some of the torn up US bombers landing in Mareeba on 
> returning from the battle when he was a boy.
> 
> Rj.

LOL. Thought I'd check out what the damage was to HMAS Australia. It 
turns out it was the US Airforce that bombed the squadron headed up by 
HMAS Australia and including 4 odd US ****ps.

http://home.st.net.au/~dunn/friendlyfire/coral01.htm

Rj.