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USASOS Coopers Plains Depot
US Army 1st Engineers Stores Base Depot (ESBD) and 3rd Provisional Ordnance Service Centre
Built by October 1942, this became the major US Army ordnance depot in Brisbane. The depot stored small parts supplies, particularly for artillery and infantry weapons. It repaired US Army equipment as well as captured enemy items. This depot also modified existing equipment to better cope with New Guinea jungle conditions. Trucks and jeeps deemed unrepairable were placed in a crusher and the scrap metal recycled for the war effort. The depot was handed over to the Australian Army at the end of the war. It remained an Army depot until sold and demolished in the 1980s.
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The site had been undeveloped land in the Coopers Plains farming district. Prior to October 1942, the various blocks comprised the site were compulsorily acquired under the Commonwealth’s National Security Regulations, with the property owners paid an annual rental fee. The US Army Services of Supply (USASOS) had prefabricated warehouses constructed on the site. The first two large igloos and a smaller headquarters office facing Orange Grove Road were completed by 28 October. This was the start of US Army Ordnance Supply Depot Coopers Plains.
By 26 February 1943, the Americans had added a further two igloos to the Depot. One...
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