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Old January 17th, 2008, 03:50 AM
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Default Re: HOLLANDIA (JAYAPURA) in 1944

Hello falcon,

Of the guerrillas I met in late '44 one team included a couple of women, I remember we supplied them, and provided arms, a few needed medical attention. One of the villages had a jap officer held captive, when we arrived they began to question him in a hut, tied to a table, and they were twisting a sharp stick in his right ear, might have been bamboo, there was a lot of it on that island.

The guerrillas had some very innovative ideas, one area in the hills had a ravine with a few damaged jap vehicles caused by a cable running across the bend of a very narrow mountain road. One guerrilla scout pointed it out to us, then said "many dead jap".
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