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​Beside each concrete bunker was a large wooden tower that transmitted or received the radar signal.
To disguise the purpose of the towers as being part of a farming enterprise, the houses for the operators were built beside Mine Camp Road and were shaped like farm buildings.
Being sited on a hill, the radar could not detect surface ships near the coast and Japanese submarines were still able to operate on the surface and sank several ships.
Photo Charles Hammer
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