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Unit Title: Radar Station
Equipment Type: AW Mk I
Formation Order: AFCO 318/42
Disbandment Order: AFCO B23/46 |
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Notes:
- On same day moved by launch to Dunk Island
- Number of personnel contract Dengue fever in first week on the island
- Sgt was member of group of 44 US marines under Maj Darnke
- Solenoid rewound in HMAS Australia workshops
- Hand injured in premature gelignite explosion
- LAC Cavanagh buried in Tully Cemetery
- After the war, the USS Phoenix was sold to Argentina and became the General Belgrano
- The tree lopping was to improve the radar propagation on low flying aircraft. Ranges achieved were: 7/11/44 163 miles, 13/11/44 185 miles, 16/11/44 191 miles
Location 17° 56', 146° 10'. Elevation 925 feet
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