No. 1 Fighter Sector RAAF

No. 1 Fighter Sector (1FS) was a Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) unit formed at Bankstown, New South Wales on 25 February 1942.

The RAAF commandeered Capitol Theatre at Bankstown for use as an operations and plotting facility on 14 March 1942.

No. 1 Fighter Sector handed over operations to United States Army Air Corps (USAAC) on 10 April 1942. The operations shifted to a disused railway tunnel at St James railway station in Sydney.

On 13 August 1942, the RAAF resumed operations of No. 1 Fighter Sector and on 7 September 1942 the unit moved back to Bankstown. No. 1 Fighter Sector was renamed No. 101 Fighter Sector (101FS) on 18 October 1943 and was further renamed No. 101 Fighter Control Unit (101FCU) on 7 March 1944.^[1]^[2]

Unit became Air Defence Headquarters Sydney (ADHQ) on 21 January 1945 and moved into a three storey semi-underground purpose built operations and plotting facility at Bankstown.

ADHQ was disbanded on 27 January 1947.

Commanding officers

Squadron Leader C.E. Woodman - 9 March 1942
Squadron Leader G.K.K. Buscombe - 3 August 1942
Squadron Leader H.A. Conaghan - 7 December 1942
Wing Commander J.H. Wright - 10 May 1943
Squadron Leader C.C. Loxton - 25 January 1944
Squadron Leader A.H. Boyd - 21 April 1944
Flight Lieutenant T.W. Livesey - 8 August 1944
Flight Lieutenant J.G. Comans - 16 October 1944
Wing Commander J.L. Darnton - 27 November 1944
Wing Commander C.G.C. Olive - 5 January 1945
Wing Commander S.W. Galton - 23 July 1945
Wing Commander R. Kingsford-Smith DFC - 10 September 1945
Flight Lieutenant G.B. Murtough DFC - 19 March 1946
Squadron Leader B.L. Bracegirdle - 11 June 1946

References

↑ Dunn, Peter (2013). "No. 1 Fighter Sector Headquarters RAAF, later known as No. 101 Fighter Control Unit RAAF". Australia at War. Retrieved 16 May 2014.
↑ Culvenor, Alex (2014). "Unit: 1FS". Radar Returns. Retrieved 16 May 2014.

City of Bankstown, South-western Sydney

Suburbs and localities within the City of Bankstown	Bankstown Bass Hill Birrong Chester Hill Chullora Condell Park East Hills Georges Hall Greenacre Manahan Milperra Mount Lewis Padstow Padstow Heights Panania Picnic Point Potts Hill Punchbowl Revesby Revesby Heights Sefton Villawood Yagoona

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Crime	Bilal Skaf Milperra massacre Roger Rogerson Sydney gang rapes Villawood Immigration Detention Centre

Education	Alphacrucis Al Amanah College Bankstown Boys (Bankstown Senior College) Bankstown City Library Bankstown Girls Birrong Girls High School Bass High School Georges River Grammar LaSalle Catholic College Malek Fahd Islamic School St Euphemia College Sefton High School University of Western Sydney

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