Aircraft of the Royal Australian Air Force, including Bostons and Beaufighters, attack Japanese positions in New Guinea in this 1943 clip from War Pictorial News. IWM WPN 123 | Imperial War Museum London

#FEATURE: Papua New Guinea holds hundreds of war remnants, each with a unique story and this is a tragic story of the "Flying Dutchman," final and fateful flight on November 10, 1942. Watch and read more here: ( https://www.postcourier.com.pg/the-flying-dutchman-final-and-fateful-flight-world-war-ii-tragedy/ ) | Post Courier

He wasn’t a movie hero — he was a U.S. Navy gunner on a motor torpedo boat, somewhere off the coast of New Guinea in 1944. Armed with a .50 caliber machine gun, this man faced the chaos of war at sea — Japanese aircraft overhead, coastal fire from the jungles, and the constant roar of engines cutting through tropical storms. PT boats were the “mosquito fleet” of the Pacific — fast, agile, and deadly. Crewed by men barely out of their teens, they hunted convoys, ambushed supply ships, and struck