{"id":3288,"date":"2024-01-22T10:00:33","date_gmt":"2024-01-21T23:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wepidgeon.com\/pidgeonpost\/?p=3288"},"modified":"2024-01-17T12:24:14","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T01:24:14","slug":"war-letters-new-guinea-22-jan-1944-finschhafen-barge-off-fortification-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wepidgeon.com\/pidgeonpost\/?p=3288","title":{"rendered":"War Letters – New Guinea: 22 Jan 1944, Finschhafen; Waiting to depart for Kelanoa"},"content":{"rendered":"

W.E. Pidgeon
\n(War Correspondent)
\nC\/O DPR
\nNew Guinea Force
\nMoresby<\/p>\n

22nd<\/sup> Jan 44<\/p>\n

Darling,<\/p>\n

I am writing this in a blooming outpost of the empire \u2013 an outpost consisting of a small tent with one table, blanketed, & draped with the cooling form of your dear husband.\u00a0 He has steamed off & for the first time since arrival is sitting quietly & is tolerably happy.<\/p>\n

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Camp near Finschhafen, New Guinea<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

He has bathed in the placid waters of the Finschhafen area, has aired his body in the cool tropical breeze and has sat on damned shape coral.\u00a0 With bended neck has gaped at clustered coconuts fifty feet above him \u2013 he has carefully avoided standing under them as fractured skulls are collected that there way.<\/p>\n

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Interior of tranpsort plane at dawn, Townsville to New Guinea, January 1944<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Landed at Lae on the way up.1<\/a><\/sup>Friday, 21st January 1944<\/span>\u00a0 You can tell Jane2<\/a><\/sup>Jess’s mother, Mary Jane Graham (nee Wray)<\/span> that as far as I could see there wasn\u2019t one house standing.\u00a0 They have just plain disappeared.\u00a0 It may have been a pleasant enough place in the good old days, but boy, the Air Forces have sure blasted all the charms & graces to high heaven.\u00a0 The coconuts stick up stripped and shorn & about as long as a 3 weeks beard.<\/p>\n

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Army Post Office APO322, Base F, Finschhafen, New Guinea<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It has turned out not so quiet \u2013 the Loot in charge of the business here is sitting opposite writing a letter \u2013 or should be.\u00a0 But then I suppose he likes to talk to someone strange so we have been chatting for the last \u00be hour.\u00a0 Consequently I have been dilatory & neglectful of the cultivation of that rather sweet just too too gentle mood into which I had been dissolving with the help of broadcast songs of Betty Grable from a YMCA hut across the way.\u00a0 Of times I felt like bursting out into \u201cSing me a Song of the islands\u201d what with the swarms of coconut palms (we are on the edge of a coconut grove plantation) and the lap-lap of the sea to egg me on.<\/p>\n

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Camp in coconut plantation near Finschhafen, New Guinea<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This side of the island is TROPIC.\u00a0 The hot sweet smell of rotting vegetation under the vine lining trees brings back to mind the typical orchid house.\u00a0 But the orchids although they are not in flower, at least those I saw weren\u2019t, Hibiscus are!\u00a0 The whole shemozzle looks like a corner of the Botanical Gardens gone to fruit.<\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t seem to be hot \u2013 it must be hot!\u00a0 My shirt is stuck on my back like a stamp.\u00a0 Yet I think the climate is good.\u00a0 You\u2019d love it for a holiday.\u00a0 The sea is blue and syrupy as the barge I\u2019m in cuts slowly through to its landing place.\u00a0 Planes zip most zippily above.<\/p>\n

This blarsted (sic) hurricane lamp is making my eyes smart. \u00a0My mind wanders whilst I most conscious of the static ache in my bum, brought about by the constant pressure of the tuberosities of the ischium upon the unresponsive board of a box of dehydrated potatoes.<\/p>\n

I am writing whilst waiting to take off (not in a plane) on another leg of my journey3<\/a><\/sup>Wep was about to head off to Kelanoa by barge from Finschafen. Much of the trip was made at night<\/span> of which I shall write you at more length when I find some place to settle down for a few nights.<\/p>\n

You deserve more than a rough resume committed to paper in circumstances most undesirable.<\/p>\n

So lots and lotzer what it takes from dear Willie.<\/p>\n

Be good & don\u2019t work
\nand don\u2019t ____________
\n\u201c\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201c\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 _______________\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 fill
\n\u201c\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201c\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 _______________\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 in
\n\u201c\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201c\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 _______________\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 as
\n\u201c\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201c\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 _______________\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 required
\n\u201c\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201c\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 _______________<\/p>\n

love to you darling
\nBill<\/p>\n

The light has got me down.\u00a0 I finish \u2013 to spend the rest of the night under the stars staring and sleeping.\u00a0 You\u2019ll understand what this is about later.<\/p>\n

Goodnight & Sweet Dreams<\/span><\/p>\n

??ou got the mosquitoes.
\n[parts missing off copy]<\/p>\n

NOTE:<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"
Volley Ball – The centre ball player is Acting Air Commodore (later Air Chief Marshall and Sir) Frederick Rudolph William Scherger, Commanding Officer RAAF No. 10 Operational Group based at Nadzab, Papua New Guinea, in support of the US Fifth Air Force.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It is believed that Wep spent a few hours painting at RAAF Number 10 Operational Group based at Nadzab near Lae. The painting featured a game of volley ball with one of the players noted as being Air Commodore (later Air Chief Marshall and Sir) Frederick Rudolph William Scherger, commander of No. 10 Group. This appears to be the only date where they could have crossed paths. No. 10 Group was later based at Morotai from June 1945 and Wep travelled there between June and August but it is yet to be determined whether their paths may have crossed there.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"
Wep sets up his painting gear, at RAAF No. 10 Operational Group<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"\"
Wep painting “Volley Ball”, at RAAF No. 10 Operational Group near Nadzab, Papua New Guinea<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"\"
Wep painting “Volley Ball”, at RAAF No. 10 Operational Group near Nadzab, Papua New Guinea<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Wep painting “Volley Ball”, at RAAF No. 10 Operational Group near Nadzab, Papua New Guinea<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Notes:<\/h3>
  • 1<\/span>
    Friday, 21st January 1944<\/div><\/li>
  • 2<\/span>
    Jess’s mother, Mary Jane Graham (nee Wray)<\/div><\/li>
  • 3<\/span>
    Wep was about to head off to Kelanoa by barge from Finschafen. Much of the trip was made at night<\/div><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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