Location
Lat 9° 3' 0S Long 149° 3' 0E  Ako village borders Porlock Harbor on the north coast of New Guinea. Also known as" Aku". Today located in Oro Province in Papua New Guinea (PNG).

Wartime History
During early 1943, an Australian Army spotters station was established at Aku overlooking Porlock Harbor. This station was manned by Churcher McLay, Appleton and Fuller at various times.

Justin Taylan adds:
"I visited this area on November 22, 2003, and the local kids and elders showed me several sites:  a kitchen mess area where the Americans ate, the site of several wartime graves of Americans that died here (unclear if they were exhumed post war or not) and the kids knew of an airplane wreck down the beach to the west, we walked for a long time, but never found it before time there ran out. They also pointed out the site of the sunken ship, s'Jacob."

References
The Private War of the Spotters page 143

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Last Updated
March 6, 2022