In what Australian city did the United States ship supplies in 1943 as part of the Lend-lease policy during WWII
New South Wales 79 class locomotive In 1943, during World War II, four diesel-electric industrial shunting type locomotives built by General Electric Company, Erie for the United States Army Transportation Corps (USATC) were imported from the United States of America by the Department of Supply under Lend-Lease conditions for use at the Dunheved munitions factory in Sydney. They were four units of 58 units built for the USATC by General Electric numbered 8499-8528 & 7900-7929.
HMAS Gympie HMAS "Gympie" (J238/M238), named for the city of Gympie, Queensland, was one of 60 "Bathurst"-class corvettes constructed during World War II, and one of 36 initially manned and commissioned solely by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN).