I think that photo of Mallala is a fake. Probably done for PR/propaganda purposes.
If you look at the aircraft they are all totally identical in perfect rows - nowhere for them to taxi past each other, same shadows and reflections. Down the back the artist even put one half of an aircraft on the dirt to keep his perfect spacing.
The only other explaination is it was after the war and every Anson in the Australian fleet was gathered there for disposal like they did with the Spitfires at Oakey etc.
Wonder how many aircraft they actually had in Mallala?
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