BOUGHT CORAL SEA ISLAND
Dreams of an idyllic life in the South Seas will come true for some United States servicemen after the war. Lieutenant Austin White, a marine, bought a South Sea island for 750 dollars. He discldsed this in a letter to his fiancee, Miss Janet Meakin, of Cincinnati. It's in the Coral Sea, not far-from . Aus-tralia's-east coast, according to a report in the "New York Times."
"Sergeant Pete Vasalie, of St. Paul, Minn., is buying real estate on Japan-ese-held New Britain, which he has bombed countless times from a Flying Fortress,", the report added. "The bombardier said he nought 100 acres near Rabaul at about 83 cents an acre through a Sydney banking firm."
"I flew over that country so many times/ Sergeant Vasalie said, "that I got to like it and' decided I'd like to own,some.of it and settle down then after the war.''
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 85, 7 October 1943, Page 3
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