and missionaries. During the war the civilian coastwatchers were augmented with about 400 coastwatchers who were Australian military officers, New Zealand...
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Netherlands New Guinea. Described by Commander Eric Feldt, director of the Coastwatchers, as "the best type of N.C.O. of the A.I.F., young and competent", Siffleet...
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The Coastwatchers is a docudrama television film about coastwatchers made in 1959 by producer Roger Mirams for Pacific Films. It starred Ken Goodlet and...
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Rafferty played an Australian coastwatcher. There had been an increase in the interest about the role of coastwatchers due to the election of John F....
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smattering of the pidgin English used by the coastwatchers by speaking with a native boy. The two coastwatchers had finally been convinced by Ensign Thom...
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8, 2018. Vagg, Stephen (2023). "Forgotten Australian TV Plays: The Coastwatchers". Filmink. Retrieved 9 August 2024. "Big Rental Pictures of 1965", Variety...
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and coastwatchers who were ill or injured and placing new coastwatchers in their stead.[citation needed] To Feldt, the needs of his coastwatchers were...
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William John Read (redirect from Jack Read (coastwatcher))
West Pacific theatre of World War II Individual Coastwatchers Martin Clemens Paul Mason (coastwatcher) Arthur Reginald Evans Jacob C. Vouza Primary Source...
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Cactus Air Force (section Coastwatchers)
search radar at Henderson Field, which, along with reports from the coastwatchers, helped provide early warning of incoming Japanese warplanes. By 3 September...
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during the Japanese invasion of 1942, becoming part of Eric Feldt's coastwatchers team. To prevent him being harmed if captured by the Japanese, he was...
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among New Zealand, the Chatham Islands, and the coastwatchers in the Pacific Islands. Coastwatchers established by Royal Australian Navy Intelligence...
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persona to play a grizzled beachcomber who is coerced into serving as a coastwatcher on an uninhabited island in the World War II romantic comedy Father Goose...
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scene of a massacre by beheading of New Zealand military and civilian coastwatchers by Japanese forces prior to the US landings. The massacre was in retaliation...
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1972) was an officer in the Royal Australian Navy. He commanded the Coastwatchers from 1943 until the end of World War II. Born to Margaret Helen Alexandrina...
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Japanese beachhead in early 1943. Allied forces became aware through coastwatchers of a Japanese airfield under construction at Guadalcanal. On 7 August...
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soothe dental pains in traditional medicine of Cambodia. In World War II, coastwatcher scout Biuku Gasa was the first of two from the Solomon Islands to reach...
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Battle of the Coral Sea Battle of the Treasury Islands Commanded the Coastwatchers. The British Resident Commissioner of the British Solomon Islands Protectorate...
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Pacific Islands, 1942–1944. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. Coastwatchers Paul Mason (coastwatcher) William John Read Don Richards, Author "Where The Sun Stood...
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the Fleet, William F. Halsey, paid tribute to Australian Coastwatchers: "The Coastwatchers saved Guadalcanal, and Guadalcanal saved the South Pacific...
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during the Battle for Guadalcanal, recognised the coastwatchers' contributions by stating "The coastwatchers saved Guadalcanal and Guadalcanal saved the South...
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Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, where the sighting could be attributed to the Coastwatchers. During the Vietnam War, trucks attacked on the Ho Chi Minh trail were...
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Howard Knox Ramey US Army William John Read Royal Australian Navy Lt WWII Coastwatcher Eddie Rickenbacker US Army Air Service CPT with six Oak Leaf Clusters...
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slot machine from Japan; and a 70-pound pair of World War II-era Nikon Coastwatcher binoculars taken from Guam in 1944. 138 12 "Help Wanted" January 2, 2012 (2012-01-02)...
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for South America. The suspicion was later confirmed when the first coastwatchers in the program found areas of newly cut Southern Rata forest at Carnley...
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site of a massacre by beheading of New Zealand military and civilian coastwatchers by Japanese forces prior to US landings in 1943. See Anzac Day#France...
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Station Kaneohe Bay. Stanley Holloway played an Australian coastwatcher. A number of coastwatchers appeared on screen in the early 1960s in part due to increased...
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PT 109: An American Epic of War, Survival, and the Destiny of John F. Kennedy (section Messages received by Coastwatchers Kevu and Evans)
his crew. It was then that Kennedy first spoke to native Melanesian coastwatchers Biuku Gasa and Eroni Kumana on Olasana Island. Fearing the castaways...
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see its home. "Ferdinand" was the code name chosen for the Australian Coastwatchers in World War II by Eric Feldt, the organization's commander: Ferdinand...
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northern Gilbert Islands. Japanese immediately seized the New Zealand Coastwatchers of Makin. Within two days, a seaplane base was built on Makin lagoon...
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informants and messengers to carry out the role of Coastwatchers to monitor Japanese activity. The Coastwatchers were planters, government officials, missionaries...
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