Off at 5:30 and headed nearer the equator. Passed over Martinique and Santa Lucia which is a really beautiful island. On South to Trinidad where we stopped for gas and lunch. Visibility was 200 miles on most of trip. On from Trinidad down along the jungle covered coast and swamps of South America to British New Guinea. Passed over huge banana plantations & rice fields with their native huts built upon stilts & thatched roofs. Air field where we stay over night is carved right in the middle of the jungle. Surprising as it is everything is modern here at base - very modern barracks, theatre, club and everything.
Even have a multitude of native girls - almost white working here on the base. They are of Portuguese origin and very beautiful. Heat is terrific - so sultry you can hardly breathe. It seems-like an age since we started but was only yesterday. Trip is so exciting never have time to even think. To bed at 8:30.
The 1944 Journal of WWII Pilot Bill Callison. Follow the adventures of Bill as written in the daily journal he kept. While this is 64 years after his entries into the journal his mother gave him for Christmas in 1943, you will be able to experience WWII England and France. This is truly a family treasure that I am sure you will enjoy.
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