08.02.2008, 02:57
Sorry mate, I could'nt get the info scanned. Blame it on the two teleconferences and fire extinguisher training :? . Ah well its Friday now 
About the Japanese base. My uncle is a corporal in the army, and lives in Wydham, WA near the border. He has done a fair bit of tracking / camping / hiking around that area ater hearing of Japanese activity during the war from old tribal indigenous people. Sure enough he found certain markings carved into cliffs and suspicious rock arrangements that pointed to an area of caves that are open to the sea. Thoughts of it being booby trapped however have kept him from going in further..... And the local people even reported seeing a Japanese landing party in the area. There are also reports of "mechanical sounds" off the coast... evidently a sub recharging its batteries on the surface at night....My Grandma even survived being strafed and bombed by a Japanese float plane when the Japanese sunk the MV Koolama.
hock:
The top end of WA and the NT are just so vast and unseen by most people that it is likely the Japanese had more to do with the area than is often thought.
About the Japanese base. My uncle is a corporal in the army, and lives in Wydham, WA near the border. He has done a fair bit of tracking / camping / hiking around that area ater hearing of Japanese activity during the war from old tribal indigenous people. Sure enough he found certain markings carved into cliffs and suspicious rock arrangements that pointed to an area of caves that are open to the sea. Thoughts of it being booby trapped however have kept him from going in further..... And the local people even reported seeing a Japanese landing party in the area. There are also reports of "mechanical sounds" off the coast... evidently a sub recharging its batteries on the surface at night....My Grandma even survived being strafed and bombed by a Japanese float plane when the Japanese sunk the MV Koolama.
hock: The top end of WA and the NT are just so vast and unseen by most people that it is likely the Japanese had more to do with the area than is often thought.