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Anti-Aircraft Battery
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| Title: | Anti-Aircraft Battery. |
| Date taken: | 1944? |
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| Description: | 19th Heavy Anti Aircraft Battery viewed from top of GL2 'radar' transmitter tower towards Fannie Bay. Abondoned Sydney Williams barracks, cookhouse, store and mess in background. Equipment planting cleared area consists of: Left, Cummins diesel generator for GL Mk 3; Rear, right of centre, more sophisticated combined receiver/transmitter GL Mk3 installed in 1944 to replace GL Mk 2 but considered unreliable in tropical conditions; Right, GL Mk2 receiver. GL Mk2 equipment required cleared ground for signal propagation, Mk2 did not. NB: GL = Gun Laying. |
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