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Roving photographer, Bruce

Adams, of Sydney, whose work fre quently appears in PIM, has recently returned from a three months Pacific tour photographing the areas that saw the heaviest fighting during the Pacific War. He is using the pictures in a forthcoming book, Battleground South Pacific. Adams met during his tour some of the wartime Coastwatchers, now long-since in civilian pursuits, and getting greyer. At right is Paul Mason, one of the more celebrated of the behind-the-lines men, photo graphed with his wife at Inus Planta tion, Bougainville. Below is Bill Bennett, in Honiara, where he is now

Assistant Broadcasting Officer with

the Solomon Islands Broadcasting Service. Below right, also in Honiara, is Dick Horton, who is now BSIP Census Commissioner.