It is hard to comprehend the force with which Cyclone Tracy struck Darwin early on Christmas Day, 1974. It was so ferocious that it killed 66 people, partly or completely destroyed 10,000 homes ...

Within a week of the cyclone Annemarie and Frank were seated on the floor of a RAAF Hercules en route to ... children in the decades that followed Tracy.

50 years ago Cyclone Tracy claimed the lives of 66 people ... shattering glass and all sorts of stuff in other parts of the base. And I remember sitting there thinking, I wonder who's going ...

“Cyclone in Darwin,” he said ... Trenerry reported for duty. RAAF Base Richmond was a “hive of activity” with “planes going everywhere” and Trenerry’s first job was to log inventory ...

“Darwin has been hit by a big cyclone,” she told us. It soon became obvious that Cyclone Tracy was not your regular ... The runway, shared by civilian and RAAF planes, had been cleared enough ...