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Jimmy’s Lookout Anti-aircraft Gun & Search Light Battery

X Battery, No.1 Gun Station, 394 Heavy Anti Aircraft Battery Rowes Bay

This Anti-Aircraft Battery was one of Townsville’s first fully operational positions at the beginning of 1942. Situated close to a small hill at the end of the main runway, its role was to protect Garbutt aerodrome from attack. Additionally it would fire warning shots at any aircraft which did not observe the correct 'lane of entry' on landing approach.

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Location

Old Common Road, Rowes Bay

Townsville, QLD 4810

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Place type

Fortifications

History

Each A/A Battery was required to keep a daily diary of training and occurrences. Few of these have survived the passage of years however this battery’s diary remains preserved at the Australian War Memorial. This gives a unique insight into the life of personnel that were required to keep these guns ready to fire on a 24 hour basis.

Although the July 1942 air raids on Townsville have been recorded in several publications, the Japanese reconnaissance over the city in the months prior to the Battle of the Coral Sea in late April and early May 1942 have not been mentioned....

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