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102 Anti Aircraft Battalion

Details:

Title

102 Anti Aircraft Battalion,

Collection

WWII Military Units, HistoryNT, Second World War, 1939-1945,

Date

0000-00-00,

Location

Batchelor Field, 34 Mile strip, Hughes Field, 28 Mile strip,

Nation of service

United States of America,

Service

Army,

Service branch

Anti-aircraft,

Unit

102 Anti Aircraft Battalion,

Alternative unit name

102 Coast Artillery Anti Aircraft Battalion,

Date arrived in NT

1942-03,

Date left the NT

1942-11,

History

The Unit was originally raised in Buffalo, New York. Some of the Unit was flown from Brisbane to Darwin in March 1942. The rest of the Unit took 13 days to drive overland from Brisbane to Darwin. A Battery was stationed at Batchelor Field, B Battery at the Darwin RAAF drome, C Battery was at the 34 Mile strip and D Battery was at Hughes Field and 28 Mile strip.,

Notes

Metadata: Attribution International 4.0 (CC-BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0, Dates: -- Batchelor, March 1942 to November 1942 -- 38 Mile, 9 April 1942 to 19 June 1942,

Language

English,

Subject

Second World War, 1939-1945, United States of America, Army, .50 calibre, Machine gun, 102 Coast Artillery Anti Aircraft Battalion, 102 Anti Aircraft Battalion,

File type

image/jpeg,

Use

No known copyright,

Copyright owner

Australian War Memorial,

License

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

Related links

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C212048 [Australian War Memorial : Photograph 057979, Second World War, 1939-1945], https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C189122 [Anti aircraft guns AA50 M6], https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C189123 [Safari : buffalo and wild game hunt], https://lant.on.worldcat.org/v2/oclc/828864691 [Frank Geddes Manuscript Collection 1941-1992: MS29], http://trove.nla.gov.au/list?id=30786 [102 Anti-aircraft Battalion],

Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/847878,

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/847878

Related items

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/847919,