Hi everyone,
I am new to the forum (and forums in general) and hoping for some advice. My name is John, AKA Rad Yak, and I am a military history buff/sleuth/amateur historian from Fremantle, WA. I have joined up because I am looking for help solving the mystery of the legendary 'Radioactive Land Rover' (often referred to as a 'Radioactive Jeep') which may or may not be buried at Leeuwin Barracks, having been contaminated during the Montebello nuclear tests of the 1950s. I have done a fair bit of research on this topic and have some good leads to share (for instance, it turns out there were actually two radioactive Land Rovers) but have not been able to conclusively prove or disprove the theory that a Land Rover is buried on the grounds. I am hoping some of you might be able to help me figure it out with the leads I have dug up.
Being new to forums I am not sure how to proceed. Should I jump straight in here or start a new thread under one of the other headings? RAN Land Rovers perhaps? Neither vehicle started out in the RAN (one was ex-Royal Navy and one was ex-Department of Supply) but both were salvaged by the RAN and brought back to HMAS Leeuwin in the fifties.
Thanks guys, look forward to hearing your thoughts.