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It is late 1941 and the Japanese are spreading rapidly through S.E. Asia and the Pacific. Rabaul on the Gazelle Peninsular is a tiny Australian outpost slap bang in the path of the invasion force. Japanese Spies, Kempai Tai Captain Tanaka, assisted by mixed race Australian, Japanese administration clerk Wilson, are working undercover in Rabaul getting advance information. Things move very quickly for thirteen year old Australian Johnny, and his lifelong friend, fourteen year old local boy Tibu, as they get stranded behind enemy lines. With the help of the village Sorcerer Tomarum, Johnny…mehr

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It is late 1941 and the Japanese are spreading rapidly through S.E. Asia and the Pacific. Rabaul on the Gazelle Peninsular is a tiny Australian outpost slap bang in the path of the invasion force. Japanese Spies, Kempai Tai Captain Tanaka, assisted by mixed race Australian, Japanese administration clerk Wilson, are working undercover in Rabaul getting advance information. Things move very quickly for thirteen year old Australian Johnny, and his lifelong friend, fourteen year old local boy Tibu, as they get stranded behind enemy lines. With the help of the village Sorcerer Tomarum, Johnny changes his appearance and name to Tovaira, and passes himself off as a local boy. The boys break Johnny's father out of prison camp, after he was captured during the invasion, then get him to a Coast watcher, to be picked up by an American Submarine. Crack Sniper shot Tibu, with Sten gun wielding Johnny, then embark on a campaign to harass the Japanese, all the while living in full sight of...
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All of these questions and answers come from my own contributions to Quora, a website that allows anyone to ask any question about anything, and anyone else to answer any question about anything. Q&A all the time. It allows the quants, the brills, the loonies, the whackos, and serious thinkers and writers to gather together to share both brilliance and looniness in equal parts. People who should have no opinions at all on anything are allowed to have opinions about everything; some of those opinions (most?) are whacky, but some of them are brilliant. IMHO. I also use a number of science resources in my answers - Wired, NewScientist, Popular Mechanics, Scientific American, Discover, Forbes, and many others - because using real science is suppose to silence the whackos. Sigh. Oh, well. What are you gonna do?