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• Toyama, fire-bombed by 173 Superfortresses on night 1st August 1945 was assessed as 99.5 percent destroyed. Fires in the city burned so brightly, even while the raid was in progress, that they set off cameras aboard the B-29s — flying more than 12,000 feet above — that ordinarily were triggered by flash units.” Please read further about Toyama
• Red Cross Nurse feeding ill POW awaiting to board ‘Manundra’ at Singapore 1945
• Colin Cameron WW1
• Darwin Woodchopping Party:  Lofty Watt, Frank Halbert, Alex Spooner, Don Manning.  Watt was only soldier to survive & return home (Photo from Wenn Collection)
• WX6799 Ernest RICKETTS ‘C’ Coy; With Green Force worked Burma end of Burma-Thai Railway; moved to Tamarkan, Thailand early 1944, sent to Petchaburi. Recovered Kachu Mountain Camp. Flew  Bangkok to Rangoon, ‘Highland’ Brigade’ to Singapore, ‘Karoa’ Hospital ship to Fremantle.
• WX9849 Archibald James Livie McIntosh Signaller with HQ Coy, with ‘F’ Force, died 10 Nov 1943 illness aged 23 years, Shimo Sonkurai, Thailand Archie was one of the Boys from Bassendean, Please read further
• WX7336 Harold Ockerby, WW1 Veteran 51st Battalion, France Ockerby was taken from Raffles College Square by Japanese with Lt. Raphael, Capt Thompson and Pte James Brown  and executed 19 Feb 1942.
• Back L-R Jimmy Quinn, Les Marriott, Johnny Clare, Clarrie Henderson, Ralph Hadfield Front Row:  Don Manning, Wenn, Len Ricketts
• WX9828 Arthur Adams married 1941 to Elsie Manser. Adams was KIA 11 Feb 1942 Ulu Pandan aged 24 years.  He was with ‘C’ Coy 10 Platoon under CO Blue Wilson.
• Mick Wenn and his son Michael
• Mates …. by Jack Chalker, POW
• Every POW dreaded finding a ulcer