Charters Towers USAAF/USAAC WWII Memorial Tree
Edmeades Park,Mossman Street
Charters Towers QLD 4820
A bottle brush tree (botanical name Callistemon) planted to commemorate the stationing of the 5th Air Force - United States Army Air Corp in Charters Towers from March 1942 to November 1943 during World War II. A cast bronze plaque is mounted to a low concrete block at the front of the tree.
- Inscription
CHARTERS TOWERS CITY COUNCIL
THIS TREE WAS PLANTED ON 11TH DECEMBER 1990
BY
COLONEL CHARLES F. PLYMALE,
UNITED STATES ARMY ATTACHE AUSTRALIA,
TO COMMEMORATE THE STATIONING OF THE
5TH AIR FORCE - UNITED STATES ARMY AIR CORP
IN CHARTERS TOWERS, 9.3.42 TO 28.11.43,
DURING WORLD WAR 2.
- Conflicts commemorated
- Unit memorials
- Memorial type
- Garden/avenue/tree
- Recorded by
- Merle Scott; Queensland War Memorial Register
- Date recorded
- 23 May 2012
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