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RAAF 25 Radar Station
Sandy Cape Radar Station
RAAF 25 Radar Station was located at Sandy Cape on Fraser Island, near the Sandy Cape Lightstation. The radar station was approved by the Air Board in July 1942, and was established in 1943. Construction was undertaken by Department of Works’ day labour, under Civil Constructional Corps (CCC) conditions.
The complex was situated within the Lighthouse Reserve, and in July 1942 the schedule of buildings included a control building; 2 powerhouses; a combined sleeping hut/first aid post; a combined mess, recreation and kitchen building; a general store; latrines; combined ablution and laundry; administrative building; airmen’s sleeping hut; 2 machine gun emplacements; clothes lines; and a shed near the landing point. Total expenses, after additional costs, were £11,641.
Reported remnants of the RAAF 25, located in a gully northwest of the lighthouse, include at least two wells, and two 'bunkers' made out of sand-filled hessian bags.
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History
In April 1942 General Sir Thomas Blamey, Commander in Chief of the Australian Military Forces (AMF or the Australian Army) and C in C of the Allied Land Forces, instructed Lieutenant Colonel GE Mott (former head of SOE in Java) to set up Special Operations in Australia, under the cover name of the Inter-Allied Services Department (ISD). The ISD later came under the control of General MacArthur’s General Headquarters (GHQ) for the South West Pacific Area (SWPA), rather than Blamey’s Land Headquarters (LHQ), which controlled those Australian Army forces not allocated to MacArthur.
The ISD was established by June 1942, and...
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