After 26 Years
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Japanese Signal
Brings An Echo
That story we published in October last year (p. 33) about a Japanese wartime spy radio being found in a cave at Hienghene, New Caledonia, has stirred the memory of Mr. Otto V. Petr, a PIM reader of Cicero, Illinois, USA.
Mr. Petr tells us that he served as a radio man in the American forces in New Caledonia during the war.
While stationed at Touho, a village just down the coast from Hienghene, he and two other radio men picked up a very loud radio signal, which they assumed must have come from somewhere nearby.
"It had a strange code and signing off ending," Mr. Petr says. "So we knew some sort of spy radio must be located in the vicinity, and we noti fied our headquarters about it.
"However, as we were due to leave New Caledonia for Guadalcanal soon afterwards, probably nothing was done about it.
"But after all these years (26), I think your story might answer my wonderment about that mysterious radio message."
Mr. Petr says he greatly enjoys reading all the news we publish about New Caledonia, Guadalcanal, Bougainville, New Guinea and Fiji, as he served in them all between 1942 and 1944.