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 ,
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 ,