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08-01-2008, 11:50 AM
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You're Top Poster: #99   | Where do I start? From a young boy, I have had an interest in things military... but where to start? I did National Service in 1971-72. 18 months of this time was spent in Papua New Guinea and based at Igam Barracks. I had many opportunities to walk over some of the battlefields, both on duty and off duty. I already had some understanding of the value of the privilege I had been afforded. It was only when I returned to Australia, however, and took the time to read about the war in Papua and New Guinea that I really grasped what an opportunity I had. At the time, I was just on another patrol. As the years have passed, I have come to realise the real significance of the aluminium water bottle I kicked of the path somewhere near Komiatum, of the American helmet I picked up (and still have) on Mount Tambu, of the weapon pits off the track somewhere between Mubo and Salamaua, of the rusty Japanese helmets lined up at the base of a tree somewhere west of Lae and of the speed of the water flowing down the Busu River. Then there is my father-in-law Fred and his mates... Last edited by Bob; 08-01-2008 at 11:52 AM.. |
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08-01-2008, 01:05 PM
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You're Top Poster: #3 | Welcome to the forum Bob. We must be the same age. Colonel Harrington, Colonel Cole, Colonel Walters during your time at Igam? Worked through PNG in the 90's. Dangerous place to be with most of the major towns on curfew except Wewak and those on Rabaul. Look forward to your posts. My dad was Fred, 6th Div Tobruk and most of his mates 9th Div. Sadly all gone now.
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm |
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08-01-2008, 08:16 PM
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You're Top Poster: #4  | Welcome to the forum Bob 
__________________ "Time is a great storyteller" If my calculations are correct SLINKY + ESCALATOR = EVERLASTING FUN God is the experience of looking at a tree and saying, "Ah!" - Joseph Campbell Heaven doesn't want me, and Hell is too scared I'll take over. |
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08-01-2008, 11:48 PM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | Welcome Bob, I hope you enjoy yourself here.
__________________ http://www.454-459squadrons.org.au/. http://www.awm.gov.au/index.asp  Aircraft from No. 60 Squadron levelling out for the "run in" to make a mast-head attack on a Japanese coaster off Akyab. Courtesy AWM. |
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09-01-2008, 07:27 AM
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You're Top Poster: #13  | Welcome Bob, may your stay be as happy as all our members Sniper 
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09-01-2008, 10:35 AM
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You're Top Poster: #99 | Quote:
We may have an interesting time comparing notes. Col Harrington was OC Lae Area, Igam Barracks when I arrived in June 71. He was replaced by Col Cole early 1972. I was posted as a Chalkie to PNG Military Cadet School. Major Jim Underwood was CO. Returned to Australia in Dec 72. Discharged Jan 73. Here's few names: Harry Patch Fred Morrison Clem Kealy Trevor McQinn Terry Egan John Cooper Jim Walters Walter Salamus Gaga Mamae Lang Kidby | |
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