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 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 .

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 Kelly]

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

[Dinty]

G'day All, I nursed a chap about 10 years ago who was stationed in Darwin at the time of the bombings (unfortunatley now this chap is deceased) but he told me it was terrifying, they had bugger all to defend themselves with, the death toll was high, chaos reigned, he said he had nightmares for years after the war had finished, he made no reference to US servicemen, maybe "mr stanley" needs to step outside his little dream world, cheers Dennis

[hrpearce]

Turned out too be just vines and branches.

[Ken Hughes]

We have even had people in NZ say the japs were not going to invade NZ.
Then why did they have money printed for NZ,why did the japs Know of and had printed the overland trails from westland to the east coast, on maps.
If this was the case ,Australia was a cert that that the japs would invade there.
Once again the 3-4 degree mob are trying to rewrite history.

[Dinty]

G'day All, I read in G.503, that they had determined that the "person" was just a moss covered broken branch, cheers Dennis