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The next picture is also made on the Buruku airstrip. It is the same
aircraft about ready for taxing out to the runway
The following pictures are made on the mainland of Netherlands New Guinea.
It is the Manokwari airstrip
Maintenance on the aircraft. Often we had magneto troubles caused
by the high humidity
I am about to take off for a patrol flight, which we had to execute
twice a day
The next picture shows the small platform on the isle called Jefman
which is situated in the most western part of New Guinea.
A Dakota in the background and the Fireflies on the foreground
At sunrise getting ready for early morning patrol
Checking the air to ground rockets for a firing practice
After returning from New Guinea at the end of 1960, I had to
attend a helicopter conversion course and ended up flying the Sykorsky S-58, which
was operating from the dutch aircraft carrier H.M.S. Karel Doorman. I served on
the carrier for two years and made many trips to Canada, the United States
West Indies, Portugal, Greece a.s.o