ESCAPE FROM JAVA
FOUR SERGEANT PILOTS NEW ZEALANDER INCLUDED (Rec. 7 p.m.) SYDNEY, Apl. 13. Four sergeant pilots, a New Zealander,. a Canadian and two from New South Wales, escaped from Java in a patched-up Lockheed bomber. The New Zealander is Douglas Jones. The pilots found a badly-damaged bomber on an abandoned airfield, and made it serviceable with pieces of bamboo and parts from two other wrecked machines. Then they flew the bomber to northern Sumatra and to Colombo, a distance of 2500 miles. The four airmen were in Goreot when the Japanese surrounded the town., They commandeered a truck and escaped towards Pameungpuak, on the south-west coast of Java. Fifteen miles from Pameungpuak they were caught by Japanese and placed , under guard, but they immediately escaped in a truck and eventually arrived at Pameungpuak. There, they found three Lockheeds which had been damaged by the Dutch. They made one serviceable within 24 hours and flew to Medan, where they refuelled and left the same day for Colombo.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24890, 14 April 1942, Page 5
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