CMPs at Truscott Airbase, AUS

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Philliphastings

An interesting image. I have seen a number of pictures of the remaining vehicle wrecks at Truscott ('secret airbase') field in North West WA. Many of the CMP cabins have this modification and I have always assumed that they were still in their WW2 configuration. Truscott is an extremely isolated location. The vehicles were brought to the spot by the Army via landing craft I believe.

If anyone has the 'Bush Tucker Man' video series you can see the vehicle park briefly in one episode. There is also a very detailed book now released with the full Story of the Airbase named after Ace pilot 'Bluey' Truscott.

As an a side, a fair bit of scrap was salvaged from Truscott in years gone by and some of it is still piled up rusting away in a yard near Perth, with an assortments of aircraft, gun and vehicle parts, some of which were scratchbuilt in the airfield workshop at Truscott.

Phill,

I remember seeing the Bush Tucker Man episode a decade ago or so. I think I made some screen shots back then. But today I ran across some pictures of the vehicles at Truscott at the Canon Digital Photography Forums:

Look at that "perfect" F15 Cab 11 sheet metal!

Hanno