Hamelin Pool Telegraph Station - Lillian O'Donahue

By Edward W. Brown; posted January 5, 2010

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Here she is, in person, the telephone operator (she had only four months' experience at the time) who helped to "save the day" during the GT-1 Gemini space mission, when the normal communications links between Carnarvon and Adelaide were taken down by a lightning strike. More on this story [id=267231641]

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