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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 June 1957Vol. XXVII, No. 11

US War-Correspondent

pp. 124-125 · Read in the full issue

Revisits Guadal[?]

AN interesting visitor to British Solomon Islands ini was Mr. Bob Miller, of L Press, who called in on his home to New York from Sj where he has been managin organisation’s South Pacific H for two years.

Mr. Miller expected to get t United States by a devious through New Guinea and the He was one of the first US correspondents to land in Gu canal during the fighting then* of course, was most interest! seeing Henderson Field ano Lunga beaches as they are tc Henderson Field is now not r although it is down on the lr reconditioning; and Lunga small resemblance to the waL beach-head.

Mr. Miller was one of the fi see Vouza, BSIP, native wan

* he had returned wounded Japanese captivity. Un nately, flooded rivers along oute to Vouza’s village in April •nted a reunion. . Miller returned to Rabaul on Protectorate ship Melanesian thence by air to Lae, NG.— ara Correspondent.

OTNOTE: In Lae, Mr. Miller that he had been most im ed with what he had seen oi Guinea. He added that he jiven Port Moresby a miss be he “had heard that they some put newspaper-reporters in there.”