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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 March 1962Vol. XXXII, No. 8

A Bomb Blast Over Rabaul

p. 61 · Read in the full issue

Vhen a ton of bombs go up they make a pretty big hole in he ground. The bombs and projectiles in the top picture, een being wired for destruction by Corporal Alan Brown vere found on a plantation near Rabaul, New Britain —and ire a sample of the wartime explosives still being uncovered n the Territory. Corporal Brown took this little lot to vacant and near Vulcan volcano, and then retreated 1,000 yards o the Rabaul Turf Club grandstand before setting off the big blast. Result: That hole in the ground.