Blood on Borneo​​
​Author: Jack Wong Sue DCM JP​
At 16, Jack received a white feather (sign of cowardice), left his job, enlisted on an overseas Norwegian tanker and remained there; returned to Australia before his 18th birthday. He then applied to join the Royal Australian Navy who rejected him because his father was born in China, so he immediately joined the Royal Australian Air Forces Air Sea Rescue and served on crash boats for four months.

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Because of his Oriental appearance and fluency in Chinese and Malay, when asked to volunteer for service behind Japanese lines with Services Reconnaissance Department  later Z Special Unit, he readily accepted.

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The anecdotal stories of his book, because that is what they are, written from the rough notes of a hastily scribbled war-time diary and aided by a phenomenal memory, make absorbing reading for all Australian teenagers and above, and I congratulate Jack on telling us so vividly and so interestingly about a special breed of men who played a unique and largely unsung role in the final defeat of a brutal but courageous enemy.

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It is a book that should be read by all Australians"
Major General Michael Jeffery AC CVO MC KStJ CitWA

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Post-war he was involved in journalism, television and music until his pre-war and wartime diving captured his fancy and opened WAs first professional dive store.
Jack Sue died in a Perth hospice, aged 84, on 16 November 2009