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To find it on a map 28.40 S 132.50 E between the Great Victoria Desert and the Nullabor Plain about as far from civilization as you can get but with a railway, about 35 miles away, and ideal spot to test the triggers for Atom Bombs and at the western end of the Woomera Rocket range.
I was there in my trade capacity to support the infrastructure and the testing. It was a pretty good posting but of course there was no social life, but it was good for my reading and I took a couple of GCEs as well enjoying the desert in my spare time.
All of a sudden in the late February 1962 an Atom Bomb Test series by the USA started on Christmas Island and overnight I was on my way flying to join the joint task forces at Pearl Harbour in Honolulu and after a week on to Christmas Island with 73 Christmas Island Sqd.
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