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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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Significant Events:
1943-03-01 Unit Formed at Mascot NSW
1943-04-04 Unit commences departure by air(1)
1943-04-06 Unit starts arriving at old Drysdale River Mission
1943-04-09 All personnel on site
1943-04-10 Radar site prepared(2)
1943-04-21 Radar erected and tested
1943-04-23 Radar operational daylight hours only
1943-04-25 Continuous operations commenced
1943-06-02 Unit fully operational
1943-09-27 Enemy air raid near unit(4)
1943-10-09 Unit moves radar to new site(5)
1943-12-19 BL4 Interrogator operational
1943-12-22 Missing Spitfire located using unit plots(6)
1944-01-03 Radar moved to tower(3)
1944-01-05 Operations commence on tower
1944-04-09 Operations ceased for relocation
1944-04-11 Barges depart for Sir Graham Moore Island WA
1944-04-12 Radar operational on new site
1944-11-15 LORAN equip begins arriving on island
1944-11-25 LORAN personnel begin arriving
1945-11-01 Unit cease operations(7)
1945-12-03 Unit arrives in Darwin NT
1946-04-18 Unit officially disbanded
 

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