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You're Top Poster: #2   | Canadian Radar Detachment in Australia From: http://home.st.net.au/~dunn/ozatwar/canradartechs.htm On 17June 1944, sufficient Canadian radar technical personnel were assembled at Lansdowne Park Barracks in Ottawa. They were known as the Canadian Radar Detachment. The unit comprised:- Royal Canadian Electrical and Mechanical EngineersThe first group arrived in Sydney on 19 August 1944 on board the SS Fort Dennison. The second group arrived in Melbourne on 6 September 1944 on board the SS William I. Chamberlain. Some of them were to move to the Radar Wing of the Australian School of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering in New South Wales, on the east coast of Australia. There they trained Australian personnel on the use of radar units that had been purchased from Canada in 1943. They also assisted with the ongoing maintenance of the new radar equipment. Others were attached to operational radar stations in Austral, New Guinea, Philippines, Cocos Island, Morotai and Borneo...................... Read more at the link above!
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm |
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