and missionaries. During the war the civilian coastwatchers were augmented with about 400 coastwatchers who were Australian military officers, New Zealand...

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...

The Coastwatchers is a docudrama television film about coastwatchers made in 1959 by producer Roger Mirams for Pacific Films. It starred Ken Goodlet and...

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...

and coastwatchers who were ill or injured and placing new coastwatchers in their stead.[citation needed] To Feldt, the needs of his coastwatchers were...

active duty with the British forces and volunteered to work with the Coastwatchers. Major Martin Clemens, a former British Solomon Islands Protectorate...

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...

among New Zealand, the Chatham Islands, and the coastwatchers in the Pacific Islands. Coastwatchers established by Royal Australian Navy Intelligence...

search radar at Henderson Field, which, along with reports from the coastwatchers, helped provide early warning of incoming Japanese warplanes. By 3 September...

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...

become an important source for historians regarding the history of the coastwatchers. Read was born on 18 September 1905 in Hobart to William George Read...

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...

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...

during the Battle for Guadalcanal, recognised the coastwatchers' contributions by stating "The coastwatchers saved Guadalcanal and Guadalcanal saved the South...

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...

provide sufficient warning of Japanese attacks, so reliance was placed on coastwatchers and spotters in the hills until an American radar unit arrived in September...

the Fleet, William F. Halsey, paid tribute to Australian Coastwatchers: "The Coastwatchers saved Guadalcanal, and Guadalcanal saved the South Pacific...

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...

Battle of the Coral Sea Battle of the Treasury Islands Commanded the Coastwatchers. The British Resident Commissioner of the British Solomon Islands Protectorate...

northern Gilbert Islands. Japanese immediately seized the New Zealand Coastwatchers of Makin. Within two days, a seaplane base was built on Makin lagoon...

Japanese beachhead in early 1943. Allied forces became aware through coastwatchers of a Japanese airfield under construction at Guadalcanal. On 7 August...

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...

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...

of Dracula as a guitarist in the Count Downes. In 1978, he portrayed coastwatcher Peter Buckley in an episode of the World War II drama series Baa Baa...

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...

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)...

his crew. It was then that Kennedy first spoke to native Melanesian coastwatchers Biuku Gasa and Eroni Kumana on Olasana Island. Fearing the castaways...

(Cressman, p. 84), but Lundstrom says that the sighting was most likely by a coastwatcher in the Solomons. Morison (1949, p. 24) speculates that Fitch should have...

be used to launch attacks on the Australian mainland. Detachments of coastwatchers were also stationed in the Bismarck Archipelago and Solomon Islands...

I America (The Good Years: From 1900 to the First World War, 1960), Coastwatchers (Lonely Vigil, 1977), the Dunkirk evacuation (The Miracle of Dunkirk...