of course stretton would have put a twenty two year old barely out of training in charge of evacuation - and ignored all the multiple committees formed, the more senior forces personnel that were assigned to support the disaster from across australia or anyone else who was better qualified and more experienced. What a joke. Every year in the retelling it gets bigger, grander and more important. Maybe that’s because every year the wasted useless life becomes more apparent and he has to cling on to one thing. Funny how no histories, personal accounts, official records or survivor stories ever mention this wunderkid.
