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RAAF Base Learmonth

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RAAF Base Learmonth is a Royal Australian Air Force base located near the town of Exmouth on the north-west coast of Western Australia. As RAAF Base Learmonth is one of the RAAF's three "bare bases", no RAAF units are currently based at Learmouth and it is maintained by a small caretaker staff during peacetime.

RAAF Base Learmonth was an important RAAF base during World War II. During the war the base was code-named "Potshot". The base is named in honor of Wing Commander C.C. Learmonth who, while commanding No. 14 Squadron, was killed in a flying accident off Rottnest Island, Western Australia in January 1944.[1]

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