ANZAC

Mark's late father's Call-Up for his medical May 1942 after Darwin was bombed. Seymour Tronson was a dairyman at Crediton Eungella on the great dividing range west of Mackay and the farmers were called up. US Air Force was based at Mackay aerodrome with an officer calling aside those farmers with milking cows - their morning milk now belonged to Uncle Sam, their afternoon milk to Mackay. Huge military trucks drove up the range each morning collecting the USAF designed 40 gallon milk tins. The normal 20 gallon milk tins were used for the Mackay afternoon milk. Seymour recalled many a time to us kids how these huge Negro US servicemen would lift those 40 gallon milk tins as if they were match sticks!