Territory Stories

Anti-Aircraft Battery

Details:

Title

Anti-Aircraft Battery,

Photo number

PH0523/0010,

Collection

Gordon Geering Collection, PictureNT, PictureNT,

Date

1944,

Location

Fannie Bay,

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.,

Notes

Date:1944?,

Language

English,

Subject

army camps, radar equipment, World War, 1939-1945, Northern Territory, Fannie Bay, Australia, Army,

Digital format

3479 x 5000 pixels : 24bpp ; 52.2Mb.,

Format

1 photograph : b&w ; 9 x 13 cm.,

File type

image/tiff,

Use

No known copyright,

Copyright owner

Library & Archives NT,

License

https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/pdm,

Related links

http://hdl.handle.net/10070/35721[PictureNT : Anti Aircraft Battery composite],

Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/35422,

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/35422

Related items

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/315080,