29 January 1942

Troops rush again for their slit trenches as an air raid alarms rings out. Gunners run to man their anti-aircraft guns and fire nervous shots before word gets around that the suspected enemy planes turn out to be friendly aircraft evacuating civilians from the old gold mining town of Wau.

The Japanese had bombed Wau a week earlier, knowing that it had become an evacuation centre for those fleeing the earlier Japanese bombing raids on Lae and Salamaua.