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Unit Title: Radar Station
Equipment Type: LW/AW Mk I
Formation Order: AFCO B103/43
Disbandment Order: AFCO B383/46 |
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Notes:
- 3 a/c leave Mascot on first day and 4 a/c next day. Journey was Mascot, Archerfield, Charleville, Cloncurry, Daly Waters & Drysdale on USAAC Hudsons
- Radar site 1 mile from camp which was around the old Pago Mission building
- Tower located 300 yards inland
- Air raid by 21 bombers and 6 fighters. Warming given by unit at 95 miles. Minor damage to 58OBU - none to 317RS. A missionary and 5 natives killed when a bomb hit theor slit trench
- New site two miles from 58OBU
- 54Sqn (RAF) piloted by FlgOff D.W. Gray became lost and ditched. His location was estimated using 317RS plots and the pilot was recued 36 hours later.
- A number of 317RS personnel were transferred to the LORAN station to assume operations from the Americans
Sir Graham Moore Island Location: 13d52m00sS 126d35m00sE Elevation 215 feet
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