Distant Archipelagos

He dropped money bags from low-flying biplanes on remote rubber plantations and tin mines spent nights in deep jungle longhouses aboard fishing kelongs manned by aboriginals far out at sea in mosquito-infested swamps collecting malarial parasites and on beaches where giant leatherback turtles came to lay their eggs. He accompanied commonwealth troops hunting for terrorists on the Thai-Malaysian border flew reconnaissance patrols seeking guerilla camps and escorted Field Marshal Templer on his re...See More