Did 79 soldiers die of cyanide?

Derek Barry
September 2 2020 - 5:00pm
COMFORT BELOW: Nurses in the Second World War in the Underground Hospital in Mount Isa.
COMFORT BELOW: Nurses in the Second World War in the Underground Hospital in Mount Isa.

MORE than 75 years after the war mystery surrounds the claim there was mass death of black American soldiers in Mount Isa.

Derek Barry

Derek Barry

Editor, the North West Star

Editor of the North West Star Mount Isa since January 2016. Prior to that, an editor at several regional southern Queensland newspapers. Passionate about telling local stories. Comes with a strange accent to due an Irish accident of birth.