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Unit Title: Radar Station
Equipment Type: LW/AW Mk IA
Disbandment Order: AFCO B135/46 |
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Notes:
- Alternated Operations with 345RS
- USS Nashville and two destroyers in firing practice with 1st Cav Div Observation post at unit
- An explosion occurred at 2030 hours during the destruction by fire of superceded secret documents. The explosion had been caused by the inadvertent inclusion of a parcel of about twelve detonators in the basket containing the waste paper. Those present were FLTLT Ross, Sgt Hodge, medical orderly, and LAC Stephenson, guard. Both FLTLT Ross and LAC Stephenson received injuries to their eyes and multiple small lacerations. Sgt Hodge was not injured and was able to render first aid. Contact was made with the US Naval Base at Ponam Island and a medical officer arrived from there at 2245 hours. Half an hour later Fl Lt Ross and LAC Stephenson were taken to Ponam for transport and admission to US Base Hospital at Lorengau the following morning.
- Equipment sailed on 'Betty Jean'
- LAC Berry drowned and LAC Lyons missing presumed drowned when a barge overturns
- Messman LAC McSweeney, while lighting a fire to burn out food cans as required by medical instructions, caused an explosion of petrol fumes at the rubbish dump. Cans were scattered to the four winds and Jack’s trousers caught fire. He ran out to sea on the reef seeking deep water to extinguish his trousers, tripped and fell over into the shallow water and the fire went out. The explosion was caused because Jack had poured 100 octane petrol on the dump and discovered that he had no matches. He returned to the mess tent to get matches and by the time he struck the match the dump was a highly explosive mixture of petrol fumes and air which exploded.
- The tent over one of the power units caught fire during refuelling at 1745 hours. The tent was completely destroyed but the motor was undamaged. Petrol fumes in the funnel inserted in the fuel tank were apparently ignited by a spark from the exhaust of the running power supply.
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