MOCK AIR RAID
AUCKLAND “INVADED” REALISTIC CONDITIONS BATTERIES IN ACTION PARTIAL BLACK-OUT (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. Searchlights swept the sea and sky, and coastal batteries went into action when aircraft and motor torpedo boats launched a mock raid on Auckland Harbour objectives last night. The units of three services participated. The exercise, which is regarded as a most ‘satisfactory test of the defence arrangements by the officer commanding the Northern Military District, Colonel N. W. McD. Weir.
With details of the plans unknown to officers and men charged with safeguarding the port, the scheme was prepared in order to exercise the defence of the city and co-ordinate the personnel responsible.
To make the conditions more realistic. the port was closed and a blackout practised at the naval dockyard and on ships in the Vicinity.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20128, 23 December 1939, Page 6
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136MOCK AIR RAID Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20128, 23 December 1939, Page 6
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