On the island of Biak, he repaired projectors as a secondary task and also provided film performances, including visits to settlements in remote areas. He thus made hundreds of flying hours in the Catalina aircraft of the Navy. With the international news he received as a radio man, he made a wall newspaper for the men. “My measurements were bored, but I always had something to do,” Schoonenberg looks back 75 years later.
Still medal for 95-year-old veteran: “They said I had never been to New Guinea”
