An emotional Anthony Albanese has reflected on the devastation of Cyclone Tracy while touring a new ... after it was left too late to deploy aircraft. Strong winds and more than 300mm of rain ...

The Connellan aircraft hangars in Darwin Airport after Cyclone Tracy, December 1974. Picture: Neil Dixon “Not just our families, but everyone needed to be gone, and that’s when it was decided.

“Pivotal moments include the sinking of HMAS Arrow during the storm, the mass evacuation of residents aboard Hercules aircraft ... productions focusing on Cyclone Tracy and its aftermath.

50 years ago Cyclone Tracy claimed the lives of 66 people ... involving 13 ships, 11 aircraft and roughly 3000 personnel. Sue was one of the last people to leave Darwin. “I got $250 payment ...

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In fact, in the wash-up to the category five cyclone the ... evacuated by TAA aircraft with the rest of his family to an uncle’s house in Brisbane about three days after Tracy, while his father ...

There seemed to be nothing of Darwin, a city of 45,000, left. Darwin airport in the wake of Cyclone Tracy, with light aircraft thrown about like toys. Picture: File Major General Alan Stretton ...