A surprise discovery nearly five years ago has sparked a nationwide search to get the WWII relic back to the Kimberley.
abc.net.au/news/wwii-machine-gun-found-by-broome-teenagers-lost-again/101756412It began in 2018 when emergency services received a call saying a teenager was walking down a residential Broome street with a gun."Someone called the police and said 'There's a boy on Reid Road with a machine gun'," he said.
It turns out the teen and his friends had stumbled across a piece of history while trying to recover an old boat in the mangroves near the centre of Broome. But at least 80 people died in Broome on March 3, 1942, when Japanese fighters strafed the airport and flying boats moored in Roebuck Bay. "And every fifth year it is what we call a significant commemoration where members of the diplomatic community join the locals to remember those who were lost on that day."
"It shows a salvaged Browning 303 machine gun being prepared for use by the local defence volunteers."When museum staff contacted police they were told that the gun first had to go to the local Norforce Army Reserve Regiment, but once it was confirmed as a relic it would likely be able to join the museum's collection.Conflicting stories emerged that the old machine gun had been sent to Darwin or to Fremantle south of Perth.
But within a few days, a defence force spokesperson was able to confirm that the machine gun in Fremantle had arrived in 2020 after being stored since 2018 by Norforce.
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