The 1940 Canberra air disaster was an aircraft crash that occurred near Canberra, the capital of Australia, on 13 August 1940, during World War II. All...

recalled to cabinet following the deaths of three ministers in the 1940 Canberra air disaster. The government was defeated in 1941, sending the UAP into opposition...

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August 1940, Prime Minister Robert Menzies contemplated the prospect of an early election. The loss of three Cabinet ministers in the 1940 Canberra air disaster...

member of the first Menzies Government. He was killed in the 1940 Canberra air disaster along with two of his cabinet colleagues and the head of the army...

Staff following the death of General Sir Brudenell White in the 1940 Canberra air disaster. The commands then went to two CMF soldiers, Major Generals Gordon...

& 1940–1940 (Killed during the 1940 Canberra air disaster). Vernon Sturdee (Lieutenant General) was the 17th Chief of the General Staff from 1940–1942...

Australian Air Force (RAAF), with an area leased out for civil aviation. On 13 August 1940, in what became known as the Canberra air disaster, a RAAF Lockheed...

Affairs (1939–1940), Information (1939–1940), and Scientific and Industrial Research (1940). He was killed in the 1940 Canberra air disaster, along with...

for Civil Aviation James Fairbairn, who was killed on 13 August 1940 Canberra air disaster.  Australian Roads portal "Annual Report 2008-2009" (PDF). ACT...

Street oversaw an expansion of the military. He was killed in the 1940 Canberra air disaster along with two cabinet colleagues and the head of the army. Street...

through parliament despite strong opposition, before dying in the 1940 Canberra air disaster. His son Tony Street succeeded him in the seat of Corangamite...

example, the death of three Cabinet ministers in the 1940 Canberra air disaster on 13 August 1940 meant that three by-elections would have been required...

AVIATION GROUP. Retrieved 5 October 2012. Gero, David B. "Military Aviation Disasters: Significant Losses Since 1908". Sparkford, Yoevil, Somerset, UK: Haynes...

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This is a list of disasters in Australia by death toll. The Port Arthur massacre claimed 35 lives in 1996 when Martin Bryant opened fire in the former...

from 1920 to 1923 and again from March to August 1940, when he was killed in the Canberra air disaster. White was born in St Arnaud, Victoria, on 23 September...

territory's coroner. He notably conducted a coronial inquest into the 1940 Canberra air disaster, which killed ten people including three cabinet members and a...

1934 and promoted to the ministry in 1938. He was killed in the 1940 Canberra air disaster, when his son was 14 years old. Street attended Melbourne Grammar...

Chemistry. 17 (8): 819. doi:10.1021/ie50188a015. Miramas 1940 Tessenderlo Group "Texas City, Texas, Disaster". Texas City Firefighters Local 1259. 29 April 1947...

James Fairbairn (1897–1940), Australian politician, Minister for Air and Civil Aviation, killed in the Canberra air disaster, 1940 John Fairbairn (disambiguation)...

the wake of the death of senior minister Geoffrey Street in the 1940 Canberra air disaster, McBride was assigned Street's portfolios of Minister for the...

action with the goal of destroying the Royal Air Force, but the attempt failed. The Canberra air disaster killed ten people, including three ministers...

Australian Navy. Wilson's ... tenacious pursuit [at the Air Court of Inquiry into the 1940 Canberra air disaster] of a theory that could not be proved appears consistent...

three ministers in the Menzies government who were killed in the 1940 Canberra air disaster. Fairbairn was educated at Geelong Grammar School and Jesus College...

European Airways Flight 609's third takeoff attempt prior to the Munich air disaster "Edwards, Mayday seven seven two—bailing out." — Iven Carl Kincheloe...

for an airport. On 1 April 1940, a military air base, RAAF Station Canberra, was established on a flat plain between Canberra and Queanbeyan. Later, this...

January 2007 and July 2022. It had previously operated the English Electric Canberra PR.7, PR.9 and T.4 from RAF Marham, Norfolk, as No. 39 (1 Photographic...

Units of the Royal Australian Air Force: A Concise History. Volume 1: Introduction, Bases, Supporting Organisations. Canberra: Aust. Govt. Pub. Service....