Field Trip to PNG

I went with my partner, Gary Christian, to research in PNG. One of the first trips we did was to the village of Aitape. We went there by jeep from Wewak. The road was filled with potholes. Often, before we could cross, we had to stop to wait for a flooded river to go down. At one point the road itself was a river. 

In Aitape, we were taken to the place where the Australian and American bases had been, near Tadji airstrip. This land is still owned by the same family that owned it in World War Two. There is World War Two wreckage—bits of wings, fuselage— all through the jungled land. 

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