Excellent Jack. Incredible how the smell of food can be A life lasting (bad) memory. So no more Chinese restaurants or Sardine barbecues for you since Burma. It's incredible that Dutch farmers actually volunteered to go to Hollandia, but I read the conditions were so hard that there were only 50 of them left in the late thirties. I wonder what happened to them when the Japanese arrived. Was there still a local authority when you liberated the area or was it plain jungle with no settlers left?

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