A friend of mine (Tom Cheong) flew these with the Catalina Squadron in Darwin during WW2 - A great Australian of Chinese Heritage. I'll always remember his hurt one day back in the 80's when he said to me "you know some punk just called me a SLOPE" - Never under estimate who you meet and call offensive/racist names.
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Possum; AKA:- Ali El-Aziz Mohamed Gundawiathan
Sent from my imperial66 typewriter using carrier pigeon, message sticks and smoke signals.
On Palm island, Nth of Townsville QLD, there are wrecked Catalinas at a place called Curasao passage. There is a whole wing with the American rondels still on it. The local aboriginies are living in the fuselage.Yhere are so many rivets.The mind boggles at the work involved. Bill
