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Barcaldine

A Small Town in Queensland, Australia

Month: October 2018

World War 2 stories

27 October 201827 October 2018 by [email protected]

American plane crash at Barcaldine Bob Robinson’s memories of a plane crash event at Barcaldine: ‘I am not sure of how old I was but I must have been about 10 yrs old. Around 1944. The plane came over Barcy …

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Looking east along railway line 1888

Oak Street Ca.1886

No Mistakin’ Barcy – youtube video

https://youtu.be/0eIcWX0GO_M

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