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Memories of Service 4 - Ken Bliss
Web (Full Length) – 2017
I finished up on Great Barrier Island, looking for Japanese submarines. It was boring. So I put in for the Air Force.– Ken Bliss
It’s marvellous how they rolled the airstrips out; it was just like rolling carpet; steel mesh. That’s after they knocked all the palm trees down.– Ken Bliss
We had the Japs all around us in the hills and every now and then they’d lob a few shells in, just at breakfast time. Bloody nuisance.– Ken Bliss
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