HOME NEVER LIKE THIS!
SYDNEY, May 14. When Japanese planes roared over Wyndham, bombing and machinegunning, a man from the meat-works dived into a patch of speargrass 15 feet high. A few minutes later a frantic figure burst from the clump and made even time to a hollow. "Landed on a bull-ant's nest!" he gasped. "Might as well be bombed as bitten to death!" Then there was the laddie in Papua who made a dash through the bombs and bits to fetch his spray gun. Mosquitoes were his trouble — "if they had had Jap. markings you would have sworn they were Zeros." And in Darwin there was a man who dived into a slit trench alongside a tiger snake. He stayed because "you know where you are with a snakef
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 121, 25 May 1942, Page 3
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130HOME NEVER LIKE THIS! Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 121, 25 May 1942, Page 3
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