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The Strand Anti-Aircraft Gun Station
Strand Park
Known as a 'class A gun station', The Strand AA contained four 3.7 inch guns, manufactured in Australia.
In total there were four emplacements, four shell stores and a command post. All were built of reinforced concrete. The guns were controlled by the centrally located command post. Sightings of suspicious aircraft were relayed to the post for action by Fighter Sector Headquarters which communicated with observer units.
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When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbour on 7 December 1941, Australia’s focus in the war turned to the Pacific. After the raid on Darwin in February 1942, many felt that as Townsville was the second largest city in Queensland, it could be the next to experience a large scale raid by the Japanese. Townsville was already designated as a staging point, with a significant United States build-up underway and the best port facilities in North Queensland.
Due to Townsville’s distance from the front line, it could not be raided by the land-based bombers that had added to the devastation in Darwin....
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