Australian Harold Moss is looking for a few Japanese painters — and not just anyone with a brush and a can of paint will do.
The 86-year-old former Royal Australian Navy sailor has written to The Japan Times asking for help in identifying four young Japanese soldiers who, in 1946 in New Guinea, he was ordered to supervise — and who he set to work painting the side of his ship, the HMAS Lithgow.
"After the war we were in Rabaul on a minesweeping operation," Moss, who was then a Petty Officer, recalled.