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Japanese soldier or casual reader who might have discovered it. Miller became fascinated by this work and the history that motivated it. Discovering there was little information readily available about the
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Rabaul nurses, he started to research the events surrounding their internment in Rabaul. Miller first met Sister
Berenice Twohill and Lorna Johnston in 1997 and through them was able to meet and interview most of the surviving nurses and officers of
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