Canberra air disaster, 1940

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	National Archives of Australia - Fact Sheet 142 - Canberra air disaster, 1940
		The Archives holds a range of records relating to this accident, often referred to as the Canberra air disaster.
		He was appointed Minister for Air at the onset of WW II, and regained the Civil Aviation portfolio in 1940.
		Funerals of Federal Ministers and Army officers – air accident, Canberra 13.8.40
	www.naa.gov.au /Publications/fact_sheets/FS142.html (777 words)

	History Of The Australian Capital Territory
		The only air disaster to occur in the ACT happened on 13 August 1940, when Australia's chief military officer and three senior ministers in the Menzies Government, James Fairbairn, Geoffrey Street and Henry Somer Gullett, were killed when their plane crashed on the southern approach to Canberra.
		The Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex was officially opened on 19 March 1965 by then Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies, and is the only station still in operation in the ACT.
		In 1931 the Federal Highway linking the ACT to Goulburn was completed, and in 1936 an airfield was constructed at Duntroon.
	corbin.bloggerus.com /Wikipedia:Featured_articles/History_of_the_Australian_Capital_Territory (5352 words)

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