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Unit Title: Radar Station
Equipment Type: LW/AW Mk I
Formation Order: AFCO B160/43
Disbandment Order: AFCO B552/45

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Notes:
  1. Equipment and personnel moved by 13 Douglas transports. Radar site on west bank of Magnificent Creek, one mile upstream from Mission
  2. Anchored in Empress Augusta Bay
  3. Island is 400 yards in dia and 1200 yards off Torokina
  4. LAC Mitchell injured when he was decapping a 0.5 shell to make 'foreigners'.
    Mitchell River Location 15° 20', 141° 42'.
    Peruata Island Location 06° 15' 40s, 155° 01' 40s.

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