Postscript
The Australian journalist, broadcaster and author Coralie Clarke Rees(1908-1972) published a less prosaic, and highly personal account of the Broome air raid in her 1946 elegy, Silent His Wings.
| “ | ...You in a tiny hand-picked bunch of sappers chosen to gelignite Broome in the teeth of the down-swooping Jap, saw stately Dutch flying-boats, lovely Dutch women, riddled with bullets, blasted, floating, American Liberators and quaking Malays spine-shattered by the hail of yellow bombs. You smelt and tasted death and the tang of it never left your tongue... | ” |
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