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Sirs: Last February I was Chief Motor Machinist Mate of a Coast Guard-manned small Army F boat which carried 116 corpses from Oro Bay, New Guinea to Finschhafen, New Guinea, where a cemetery was being established for the Southwest Pacific Area...
After all this moving even the all-steel coffins were showing the effects of wear and handling and many had been damaged and broken. Due to the damaged coffins and the advanced decomposition of the bodies, the nauseating job of disinterment for transfer to Finschhafen was given to native labor, but American G.I.s had to load them on the ship. . . . As the result of this experimental trip an order was issued that no Coast Guard-manned Army ship should load this type of cargo again because of the hazard to the health, well-being and morale of the crew...
Along footworn trails through grassland and jungle hurried the villagers, with feathers in their fuzzy-wuzzy hair, ocher paint on their black bodies, drums and pipes slung across their shoulders. Near the white man's busy base at Finschhafen they converged...
When World War II broke out, Australian authorities interned G. Pilhofer, the few known Nazis at Finschhafen, and some others-29 in all-who were suspect. A few German Lutherans, including Dr. Lehner, were allowed to remain, and the U.S.-Australian Lutherans at Madang on the same coast sent seven of their people to save Finschhafen for the church. Among the seven was Dr. Agnes Hoeger, a graduate of the University of Minnesota's Medical School and the daughter of a Lutheran pastor at Fargo...
Last week, from bombed and suddenly excited Port Moresby, came a strange tale about Finschhafen. According to the story, the Japs at Finschhafen had found guides to lead them through the jungles* toward airdrome sites in the Markham Valley. With missionaries or their native pupils for guides, tough Jap troops might even find a way 200 miles through the jungles and over the mountains to Port Moresby by land. According to the story, the Lutherans had abandoned their coastal missions and retired to the jungles. In one mission house Australian militia found Nazi arm bands and pennants...