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Well we got sick of sitting around up there and the bloody mosquitoes. Everywhere you went you were up to your backside in mud.
It never stopped raining there. All the airfields were pretty bad, you know, and you could see the planes going this way and trying to take off, you know, it was a helluva time for the pilots but we just wanted to see some action, you know.
We were in the landing there at Balikpapan. We thought we might see a bit of action with 50 of us together but all of our fellows came home with no one killed. They all came home together after the war. No one was killed.
When we pulled up there the first day they were strafing all along the shore with, throwing these flares over and then bombing all the battleships along the front of us and we were out behind them and after two days the AIF went in and were still out there and I think it was the second or third day we went in behind them and they were still fighting up the hill when we went in behind them.
