Whisky or not: The day Bob Hope dropped in to Laurieton

By Mike Scanlon
Updated August 20 2019 - 8:38am, first published August 17 2019 - 11:26am
Familiar face: World famous US comedian Bob Hope phoning home from Laurieton in 1944 after his Catalina crash-landed there. Picture: Camden Haven Historical Society
Familiar face: World famous US comedian Bob Hope phoning home from Laurieton in 1944 after his Catalina crash-landed there. Picture: Camden Haven Historical Society

A FEW days ago marked the 75th anniversary of a dramatic emergency landing of a flying boat. It was briefly one of NSW's most publicised wartime incidents.

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