Wewak

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Mosby to Wewak, where we had to graze the top of the tree to get down to the bumpy landing strip on the edge of the jungle.

Gabor Krilovich was getting some last-minute dope from the pilot, while Lily and I waited where we'd unloaded all our gear.

Johnny, Johnny, you've got to talk to Gabor.

He entered flying school after World War II broke out and ended up with the Jolly Rogers as a pilot.

Not only did he take my call, he told me some incredible stories, including one about a mission he flew over Wewak in December of 1943.

Not only did we lose planes and crews, Chief Bearskin said, the flak was so thick that I felt like I could just get out and walk on it.

Bearskin and his crew of the Big Chief survived that mission and the war, and I used the Chief's description in the song.

And af- after that, we, we took the, we took these two samples.

We stored it in, uh, ethanol, and then we had to, instead of going back by boat, we took a car down to the main town in Wewak, and we came back to Madang on the plane.

Yeah, so when we, when we came back, we had to send, um, we had to wait for, you know, um, experts to, uh, confirm that it was the, it was actually the pipefish.

How important is it for science, for researchers such as yourself to, to find creatures like this?