Naval Base Darwin

Due to Japan's southern advance in the Pacific War into the Southwest Pacific the US Navy also built a submarine base and PT boat Bases on the northwest coast of Australia, to patrol and protect the shipping lanes.

The city of Darwin is on a peninsula between Clarence Strait and Frances Bay in the northern coast of Australia.

[7] The USS Black Hawk (AD-9) a destroyer tender operated out of Naval Base Darwin from January 3 to February 1942.

[8] USS Langley (CV-1), the US Navy's first aircraft carrier, assisted the Royal Australian Air Force in running anti-submarine patrols out of Darwin from January 1 to 11 1942.

*After Victory over Japan Day the base closed and the US Navy started taking Troops home in Operation Magic Carpet.

It was run under the United States Seventh Fleet for the Naval Intelligence Center and opened in March 1943.

Darwin Harbour with the sunken ship MV Neptuna and burnt-out wharf of Darwin Harbour following the attack on February 19, 1942
Map of the 1942 American-British-Dutch-Australian Command
USS Holland with (left to right: Cachalot , Dolphin , Barracuda , Bass , Bonita , Nautilus , Narwhal )