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United States Army warehouses

On 20 July 1942, US General Douglas MacArthur transferred his Australian headquarters (HQ) of the South-West Pacific (SWPA) command from Melbourne to Brisbane. Brisbane was chosen as it possessed major port facilities; was a rail hub; and was closer to the frontline in Papua and New Guinea. Thus Brisbane became a major Allied base during the Pacific War, of equal significance to Pearl Harbour (Central and Northern Pacific commands HQ) and Bombay (South-East Asia command HQ).

These twin warehouses are examples of the military infrastructure that the American forces constructed in Brisbane so as to develop it as an important logistical base and the SWPA headquarters.

Place information

Location

40 Railway Street and 61 Railway Parade

Nudgee, QLD 4014

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Place type

Supply facility

History

Construction of some US Army warehouses at Nudgee was proposed in August 1943. The site chosen was at the lower end of St Achs Street where it bordered the rail line to Sandgate. The Queensland Government’s Department of Works looked to purchasing a site in Nudgee to build military storage facilities close to Brisbane’s suburban rail network. The site chosen was the St Achs Street market garden that was owned by Archibald Goonchee. Goonchee was quite dissatisfied as the Works Department paid him £175 for the lease of this block of land that he had paid £375 for in 1941.

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