P03438.020 Accession Number: P03438.020

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Rosehill Racecourse, Sydney, NSW. Members of the American Army undertaking a training exercise to assemble a Mark 1 Light Weight Air Warning (LW/AW) Radar. They have completed the first phase of the assembly and are positioning the mast in order to be raised into position once the array has been attached. The Americans had no LW/AW radar construction training prior to this.

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Accession Number
P03438.020
Photographer
Unknown
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Negative
Date Made
c 1942
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Credit Line
Donor E. Bullock.
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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