Hello All!

Lefty, you're Dad's friend might have been with the 32nd, as I was at Buna, the ship you mention was the transport for the 32nd which I think disembarked at Adelaide in '42. I knew an Aussie who was disarming jap 20mm rounds and grenades, then dumping the propellant into a helmet, who had an accident one fine morning. When we got him out of the burning hut he was working in, he was scorched and burnt but alive enough to ask for a "smoke Mate". His condition got worse, and appeared to be bleeding internally, we looked him over and couldn't find a puncture anywhere, then we found a hole in armpit of the ragged shirt he had been wearing, a hot piece of steel had gone through the hair under his arm and the skin sealed itself from bleeding. I don't know what became of him after they carried him out.

I enlisted in Parker at the courthouse, I got on a bus with four other fellows, and we joined up with the 147th at a staging area which was en route to Camp Clayton, we left Dakota in a blizzard and headed for California, our motor convoy averaged about 35 mph for just about the entire trip.

Falcon my friend, I answered you're question when I responded to Jeff at the top of this page.

Skipper, Alice Springs was not that bad, we had food and water, we lived in tents, and no one was shooting at us.