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It was all, it was all jungle.

They cleared a place and, and, uh, created a landing strip for aircraft, uh, landing there and, uh, put in air base in there.

And I was radio operator, uh, quite on that island for, oh gosh, probably eight to 10 months, uh, just, you know, on there.

And, uh, I was in contact with, uh, what they call coastwatchers over there in New Guinea.

Uh, Rabaul was a Japanese stronghold, and it was on the coast of New Guinea, a big city there.

And, uh, anyway, on, on this, uh, New Guinea they had what they called coastwatchers.

Um, tell me a little bit about Pondosa, Oregon.