Someone else must have a few.. ? Hope I'm not boring all.. Just having a prune addiction phase at the keyboard before I go off and seek another job..
Jim Boyers early hardwood logging of the old battlefields near Munda..
The log loading area at Diamond Narrows. The ships pulled up to the undercut coral bank on the narrow passage and loaded directly for Japan. These days they go to Malaysia. When the logs were cut up, the saws got damaged by shrapnel still embedded from the war - so you could say the Japanese were getting their war munitions back 'value added'..
There was an overgrown American-built fighter strip on the peninsula opposite near present day Noro. Munda was the captured long bomber strip, but had fighters based there too.
Canoe house Diamond Narrows with a family setting sail.
What is the connection with aviation? Not a lot, but I did the charter from Honiara to Munda in the Baron and went along to see the operation. He chartered a fair bit back then. Passed on now - but his son is a Member of Parliament for the area.
