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Illowara Battery Port Kembla - 12/2/2015 5:35:28 PM

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This appears to be missing from the game. In stock and in RHS and in several mods
I have looked at. FYI.

The Australian Army took over occupation of the Hill 60 area and the Aboriginal people living there were forcibly removed from the land and were never permitted to return to the Hill.[1][2]

Two large gun emplacements were constructed, housing BL 6 inch Mk XI guns and their shields held in storage from the decommissioned World War I cruisers HMAS Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne. Two large tunnels were built and are steep in descent and have a small gauge tramway used for hauling shells to the guns located at the 2 gun emplacements.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illowra_Battery

photo captions at address above
One of the other tunnels, this time looking downwards with another corridor to the left leading into the bunker complex
A concrete bunker is connected to the underground tunnel system.

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RE: Illowara Battery Port Kembla - 12/4/2015 6:08:32 AM

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There's a lot of missing coastal defences. Can't find my notes on the Aussies, but here's the Kiwis.
9 Heavy (Coast) Regiment
RHQ North Head
60 Battery NW tip of Motutapu Island 3x 6" Mk XXI, 2x CASL
61 Battery Fort Cautley 2x4" Mk VII, 2x12 Pdr, 4x 6 Pdr H&N, 6xCASL
Bastion Pt 2x 12 Pdr, 1x6 Pdr Twin Six, 3x CASL
Gt Barrier Is 1x6" Mk VII, 1x4" Mk VII, 4x40mm
Manakau 4.7"
Motuihi Is 2x4" Mk VII
62 Battery Fort Takapuna 2x4" Mk VII, 2xCASL, 3.7" AA
63 Battery Castor Bay: 5 miles north of Fort Cautley 2x6" Mk VII, 2xCASL
64 Battery Whangaparaoa: SE tip of peninsular 2x6" Mk VII, 2xCASL
163 Battery Whangaparaoa: SE tip of peninsular 2x9.2"
164 Battery Waiheke Is: Man-o-War, NE of island 2x9.2"
68 Battery Bay of Islands: Motoroa Is, Waitata Pt near Russell 4x6" Mk VII, 8x40mm
Whangaraoa: South Head of harbour 6" Mk VII
139 Battery Whangarei: NW of Bream Head overlooking entrance 5" (USA)

10 Heavy (Coast) Regiment
RHQ Fort Dorset
70 Battery Palmer Head 3x6" Mk XXI, 4xCASL
71 Battery Fort Dorset 2x6" Mk VII, 2x4" Mk VII, 4x12 Pdr, 7xCASL
72 Battery Fort Ballance: Watts Peninsula 2x4" Mk VII, 1x6 Pdr Twin Six, 2x75mm, 6xCASL
73 Battery Opau 2x6" Mk VII
165 Battery Wrights Hill 2x9.2"
77 Battery Napier: Bluff Hill 2x6" Mk VII, 5x40mm
78 Battery New Plymouth: Moturoa 2x155mm, 4x40mm
140 Battery Wanganui: Languard Bluff 5" (USA)

11 Heavy (Coast) Regiment
RHQ Godley Head
80 Battery Godley Head: northern Mainland entrance to Lyttleton Harbour 3x 6" Mk XXIV, 2xCASL
81 Battery Battery Point: northern side of Lyttleton Harbour, 3 miles from mouth 2x4.7" Mk VII, 1x6 Pdr 10 Cwt, 5x CASL
Ripapa Island: southern side of Lyttleton Harbour 1x 6" EOC
84 Battery Tory Channel entrance, Queen Charlotte Sound 1x 6" Mk VII, 12x40mm Bofors
Tory Channel, Maraetai, Queen Charlotte Sound 1x 6" Mk VII
Blumine Island 2x 6" Mk VII
Post Office Point, Pelorus Sound 1x 6" Mk VII
Maud Island, Pelorus Sound 1x 6" Mk VII
Port Hills, Nelson 1x 6" Mk VII
85 Battery Timaru: Smithfield Freezing Works 2x 6" Mk VII, 4x40mm Bofors
134 Battery Westport: South Spit 1x5" (US), 4x40mm Bofors
Greymouth: Cobden 1x5" (US), 4x40mm Bofors
143 Battery Akaroa: Wainui 2x6" Mk VII, 4x40mm, 2xCASL

13 Heavy (Coast) Regiment Dunedin
RHQ Taiaroa Heads, Otago Peninsular 6" EOC, 5xCASL
82 Battery Rerewahine, Otago Peninsular 2x6" Mk VII
Tomahawk, 3 mile SE of Dunedin Port 2x6" Mk VII
Harrington Point, Dunedin Harbour 2x6 Pdr Twin Six, 2x 6 Pdr H&N
141 Battery Oamaru: Cape Wanbrow 5" (USA)
142 Battery Bluff 6" Mk VII

And the Fijians

1st Heavy Rgt, Fiji Military Force
1st Heavy Btty Flagstaff Hill, Suva 3x 6" Mk XXIV Jul-42
2nd Heavy Btty Examination Btty, Suva 2x6" MkVII Feb 1941, replaced 2x4.7" Mk?
3rd Heavy Btty Momi 2x6" MkVII Defence of Navula Passage, May 1941
4th Heavy Btty Delaimbilo 2x4.7" Mk ? Defence of Suva Harbour, Aug 1941
5th Heavy Btty Vuda 2x6" MkVII Aug 42, defence of Nadi Bay and Lautoka Port
Medium Section Momi 2x155mm Panama Mount Apr 1942, defence of Navula Passage
Medium Section Esivo, near Vudo 2x155mm Panama Mount Apr 42, defence of Nadi Bay and Lautoka Port
? Suva Harbour 4xSL (CASL?)

ETA: most of this should be self-explanatory, but CASL = Coast Artillery Searchlight

< Message edited by dwg -- 12/5/2015 2:25:11 AM >

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RE: Illowara Battery Port Kembla - 12/7/2015 3:47:37 AM

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Thank you very much. Location work has caused me to discover numbers of LCU - not always
coast batteries. IJN had two pre war bases on the map but without their units (or airfields)
at Diato Shoto and on Marcus Island. IJA had significant forces from 1944 on Uruppu Jima
and a minor unit on Shimushiri Jima. I found similar cases in Alaska and the Aleutians.
I will try to fold this in next time I get to location file work.

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