THIS IS THE WAY IT HAPPENED: James Bond and Me
By Jonathan Brett Young (This article was first published in NOCN 85, 1 June 2011.) In the 1965 James Bond film Thunderball, the villain, Emilio Largo, played by the striking […]
Month: November 2013
Well, well! What have we got here?
(This piece of whimsy was first published in NOCN 85, 1 June 2011, in a shorter version. This presentation contains material omitted from the Newsletter one for reasons of space, […]
A TALE FROM THE ISLANDS … Our man on Vella Lavella – and the unexpected guests
(This article was first published in NOCN 85, 1 June 2011.) Newsletter 84 published on 1 March 2011 contained a review of Patrick Lindsay’s new-release The Coast Watchers: Behind enemy […]
THE WAY IT WAS: Anecdotal reflections on HMAS Nirimba, 1984-1987
THE WAY IT WAS: Anecdotal reflections on HMAS Nirimba, 1984-1987 By Ralph Derbidge (This article was first published in NOCN 85, 1 June 2011.) Around the time HMAS Nirimba, the […]