RANAD Somerton: card filled out during WWII 1943

Greenvale, Victoria, Australia (Hume City)

21 km distance from Melbourne Town Hall.
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RANAD Somerton: card filled out during WWII 1943
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A Parapunch card filled out in 1943 that appears to contain details of ammunition stored at the former RANAD base. This soggy card was found lying on the ground shortly after an admin building was dismantled, and it's unlikely that explosives dating from 1943 would have still been stored at the base when it closed around the year 2000, so the card had probably slipped into a cavity somewhere, and had been hiding for many years.

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