Republished with permission. Chapter 31 of the book: A Touch of Dutch. For the full pdf of the book click here.
Wil Hamers, Party Apple and the Dutch Catalina intelligence missions On 13 January 1945, a Dutch Catalina flying boat approached an isolated stretch of the east coast of Japanese-occupied Borneo. On board were eight NEFIS Read more
During the Second World War, a large house on a hill overlooking Cairns became one of Australia’s most secret military establishments. Fairview House at Mooroobool, known to wartime personnel simply as the “House on the Read more
Ferdinand “Ferdi” Boers arrived in Australia from the Netherlands as an 18-year-old toolmaking apprentice in 1954. Although he brought translated apprenticeship papers with him, Ferdi initially had to accept work as a labourer at the Read more