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Just read this up on the smh.com.auTruth is stranger than fiction, as they say. THE Australian Mosquito pilot has one fear as his plane goes into a dogfight with Japanese fighters during the battle of Darwin in 1942: what's going to happen to his collection of jazz records?It's a typical example of Franck Gohier's new exhibition Darwin 1942. Graphic, visually absorbing, emotionally challenging, funny.The French-born Gohier, 40, who has lived in Darwin since he was seven, has been painting comic book-style canvases since he was a teenager. Invariably, they use satire, wry humour and a sense of the absurd to explore the Northern Territory's life-on-the-border edginess.Yet Gohier's jazz pilot image isn't a figment of his imagination: the incident actually happened. The pilot was Kym Bonython, later to become a celebrated gallery owner, art historian and jazz broadcaster."He crashed his Mosquito on an Indonesian island," Gohier says. "Once the crew were safely out, he went back to the plane to save his gramophone and crate of jazz records. They were stranded in the jungle for several days." 
By lokoone, shot with Canon EOS 30D at 2008-05-07[/img]
By lokoone, shot with Canon EOS 30D at 2008-05-07[/img]
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