The scoreboard outside the operations hut for the 3rd Attack at Charters towers early in the piece, at Charters Towers in 1942. The board reads:

NIP SLIPS
(OR COFFIN CORNER)

TOTAL 26

The seaplane reference applied to some of this units early missions to the Eastern tip of New Guinea where they infrequently ran into Japanese Navy A6M2-N Rufes.

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