15 December. The Fremantle Traffic Bridge opened. It was not intended to be used for more than five years, but it's still there. 1940s photo.
Freotopia
This page incorporates material from Garry Gillard's Freotopia website, that he started in 2014 and the contents of which he donated to Wikimedia Australia in 2024. The content was originally created on 6 August, 2015 and hosted at freotopia.org/timeline/1939.html (it was last updated on 16 August, 2015), and has been edited since it was imported here (see page history). The donated data is also preserved in the Internet Archive's collection.