A team of international researchers is on a mission to gather first-hand accounts of Papua New Guineans' wartime experience along the Kokoda Track. The project will draw on the expertise of historians and locals to capture an "oral history", recording interviews and stories to be curated by the...read more

Squadron VC-65 was commissioned in June 10, 1943 at Alameda Naval Air Station, Alameda, California, with Lieutenant Commander Ralph M. Jones in command. Throughout June and July of 1943, squadron personnel began arriving to join VC-65, and by the end of July the full complement was aboard. The...read more