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Unit Title: Radar Station
Equipment Type: LW/AW Mk IA
Formation Order: AFCO B311/43
Disbandment Order: AFCO B62/46

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Notes:
  1. Lodge with 41 Wing
  2. On arrival they lodged with 148th Artillery
  3. PltOff L. Bell and one airman landed with initial invasion force to select radar site.
  4. During the entire period, the unit was under constant bombing & strafing attacks but still maintained a high plot output which lead to high level of compliments from the Fighter Sector (20FS). During a period of 5 months, the unit suffered from unrelenting Japanese air raids, sneak night raids in rubber boats with phone lines being cut at regular intervals.

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