Well you took your bloody time to get here! I've run out of tobacco!

[Tony Smith]

An interesting find in New Guinea: Kokoda

[horsa]

Wow! You just never can tell what will turn up when hiking. Be interested in reading any follow up they report after the investigation.

[Dinty]

G'day All, It will be interesting to find out what "it" really is, if it is what it's reported to be, well that could bring closure to a family somewhere in the world, but wouldn't you think that after 60+ years hanging in a harness (unless made of stainless steel) that it would have rotted and fallen to the ground, being a Reg/nse I would have thought that the body would have well and truly decomposed and literally fell apart, let alone all the different types of scavenging animals (even at 15metres above ground level) in that part of the world, sorry to be a lead balloon but after the red neck story out of the US recently about "bigfoot" I'm a sceptic anyway we will wait n see cheers Dennis

[Mike K]

Listening to the ABC book show on Radio National this morning , a well known author has released a new book. The jist of it is: he claims the Japanese had no intentions of invading Australia. He said in plain language , the whole New Guinea campaign and Darwin bombings were just a minor sideshow in the bigger scheme of things . His surname is Stanley from memory.

He said most of the people killed at Darwin were U.S. servicemen anyway !

He sounded like a typical academic, with 3 or 4 degrees , who's never been beyond the cloistered realm of academia .

I wonder if he thought about this: if Port Moresby had a busy Japanese run airfield or two, well within range of Cairns, Townsville and other Northern ports . Would the Japs have just sat there, without taking on daily bomb runs to those cities . Think of the bombs raining down.

Mike

[Richard Coutts-Smith]

.....And of course the mini-subs were just the forerunners of todays harbour cruises.
Where do they get these people from??
Rich

[aj.lec]

Originally Posted by Mike Kelly

Listening to the ABC book show on Radio National this morning , a well known author has released a new book. The jist of it is: he claims the Japanese had no intentions of invading Australia. He said in plain language , the whole New Guinea campaign and Darwin bombings were just a minor sideshow in the bigger scheme of things . His surname is Stanley from memory.

He said most of the people killed at Darwin were U.S. servicemen anyway !

He sounded like a typical academic, with 3 or 4 degrees , who's never been beyond the cloistered realm of academia .


Mike

I have to agree with rich and mike
I think the 3 or 4 degrees are actually levels of stupidity not intelligence
You really have to wonder what drugs these people are using when they come out with such dribble

If it is in fact a missing airman hopefully they find his identity and lay him to rest respectfully .Lest we forget

[Mike K]

The program is available to listen live to or download .

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/saturdayext...08/2349869.htm

His views are very off the mark in my view.

Mike