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Old December 30th, 2007, 06:52 PM
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Default Re: HOLLANDIA (JAYAPURA) in 1944

Skipper,

I don't remember much more than the grass and palm huts sitting up on stilts, the jap camps built about the same, I don't recall seeing brick or stone structures, It was a fairly vast and primitive place with heavy vegetation in many areas. Trails were muddy, the roads were dirt as I can remember, until engineers or CB's graded new ones with matting to run supplies.

The New Guinea natives had a long cultural history of tribal head hunting, before we ever came along. They didn't all carry heads with them, usually some of the trackers would be the ones to take heads after the fighting was over.
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