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...Wie frantically coiled himself up, the spinning tire struck him, laying bare one of his shoulder blades. Bleeding, scorched by flame and chilled by the prop wash, Bas Wie mercifully lost consciousness. For three hours his body stayed so firmly wedged within the struts that it did not fall out even when the big wheel went down again. When the crew found him "just hanging there," Bas Wie seemed close to death...
...young Bas Wie remembered the happier days of the bighearted Australians, who not only drove the Japanese away, but gave him candy, bully beef and rides in their trucks, until it was time for them to go home. One night in August 1946 Bas Wie thought of his old friends again as he nursed the raw bruise on his belly where the cook had, as he did so often, just kicked...
Scorched & Frozen. A few minutes later, unaware of their small passenger, the crew came aboard and the plane took off. As the ship cleared the runway, Bas Wie's nightmare began. Near him an exhaust pipe spouted orange flame. Freezing propeller blasts whipped his thin shirt, but probably saved him from being overcome by engine fumes. And, to his horrified surprise, the retracting big wheel began to rise to crush him. Fighting back his panic, Bas Wie scrambled into the only possible place of safety-a space ten inches deep and 20 inches high, between a fuel tank...
Year by Year. For three months doctors and nurses in the Darwin hospital tended the boy that everyone came to know as "the Kupang Kid." Then the government, whose "white Australia" policy bars Asian immigrants, brusquely announced that, once restored to health, Bas Wie would be sent back to Timor. Darwin citizens bombarded the Immigration Minister with protests. "A kid with guts like that," said one, "needs encouragement." Yielding to pressure, the government gave Bas Wie a one-year certificate of exemption. Each year after that the certificate was renewed...
...Wie in an Guglhupf zwa Zibeben So sitzen wir beinand' im Leben (Like two raisins in a coffee cake We sit side by side in life...