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ORO BAY IS A COVE in Papua New Guinea, where I, and a mixture of experienced soldiers, many from the Middle East, together with a crowd of greenhorns just nineteen years old, were disembarked. Fighting was going on further up the coast, but our part had been cleared of Japanese, and there was a working port, into which we sailed. There were five merchant ships in the harbour at the time. We were told that the Japanese were expected to bomb that night. So, we must best dig in, on a hillside, looking down on the harbour.
The experienced chaps had been sent to other parts of the area, to set up, among other things, our wireless equipment. So a group of us young ones ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Schweik in New Guinea.(First Person)(Short story)