Sole survivor fights to clear WWII shadow   Australian
Broadcasting Corporation  Broadcast: 16/01/2013  Reporter: Adam
Harvey  The sole survivor of an Australian air crew wrongly
blamed for a naval disaster near the Solomon Islands in World
War Two is determined to keep up the fight to have the history
books corrected.   LEIGH SALES, PRESENTER: For more than 70
years American historians have wrongly blamed an Australian air
crew for contributing to a Second World War naval disaster.
Twelve hundred allied sailors died in the battle of Savo Island
in the Solomons.  The sole survivor of the air crew is now
94-years-old and he's never stopped fighting to have history
corrected.  Adam Harvey reports.  (Archival newsreel footage in
background)  ADAM HARVEY, REPORTER: August 1942 - desperate days
in World War 2. After the disaster at Pearl Harbour, US forces
are finally striking back against the Japanese at Guadalcanal in
the Solomon Islands.  EXCERPT NEWSREELS (Archival): Under cover
of the fleet's concentrated fi