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New Caledonia Map

This was my first place of assignment just of the coast of Australia.  Today it is called Vanuatu.  Here we were issued mosquito nets, guns with bayonets, helmets, and other combat gear.  Within a few days we were shipped out to the PT-Boat Base in the Solomon Islands.  That is where President Kennedy was stationed with PT109 in the Treasure Islands, Carter city.  It was also there that I was assigned to my ship, the LCI 222.