crewman from US Navy PBY rescue mission who had jumped into the water of Rabaul Harbour in 1944. He had rescued a badly burned Marine pilot, shot down while bombing the Japanese-held fortress of Rabaul. Japanese coastal defence guns were still firing at t

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