In the following days, SM.73 transport planes shuttled daily between Switzerland and Tunisia. As special passengers arrived, special cargo was also delivered to Tunisia. The amount wasn't large—just over ten million pounds—but all of it was of the perfect grade, meaning no one could tell it was counterfeit.
Within a few days, the special passengers set off from Tunisia for Australia.
They weren't the only ones heading to Australia; the entire Borneo Garrison was on the move. Tens of thousands of officers and soldiers boarded 137 County-class tank landing ships, and, escorted by the US Navy, passed through the Mediterranean, entered the Suez Canal, the Red Sea, and then into the Indian Ocean.
