The Coastwatchers is a docudrama television film about coastwatchers made in 1959 by producer Roger Mirams for Pacific Films. It starred Ken Goodlet and... 7 KB (753 words) - 20:28, 29 May 2023 |
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... 68 KB (8,952 words) - 02:10, 8 March 2024 |
and coastwatchers who were ill or injured and placing new coastwatchers in their stead.[citation needed] To Feldt, the needs of his coastwatchers were... 13 KB (1,599 words) - 06:54, 18 December 2023 |
among New Zealand, the Chatham Islands, and the coastwatchers in the Pacific Islands. Coastwatchers established by Royal Australian Navy Intelligence... 20 KB (2,503 words) - 20:40, 22 April 2024 |
William John Read (redirect from Jack Read (coastwatcher)) 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... 14 KB (1,782 words) - 23:18, 27 January 2024 |
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... 52 KB (6,251 words) - 01:40, 2 November 2023 |
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... 6 KB (669 words) - 23:22, 7 November 2023 |
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... 5 KB (504 words) - 23:34, 6 August 2023 |
the Fleet, William F. Halsey, paid tribute to Australian Coastwatchers: "The Coastwatchers saved Guadalcanal, and Guadalcanal saved the South Pacific... 147 KB (19,600 words) - 16:36, 20 March 2024 |
northern Gilbert Islands. Japanese immediately seized the New Zealand Coastwatchers of Makin. Within two days, a seaplane base was built on Makin lagoon... 18 KB (1,861 words) - 14:33, 1 April 2024 |
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... 24 KB (2,740 words) - 03:09, 8 April 2024 |
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... 58 KB (5,910 words) - 07:02, 27 April 2024 |
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... 6 KB (747 words) - 07:28, 10 April 2024 |
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)... 393 KB (538 words) - 01:20, 29 April 2024 |
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... 16 KB (2,174 words) - 09:46, 5 December 2023 |
I America (The Good Years: From 1900 to the First World War, 1960), Coastwatchers (Lonely Vigil, 1977), the Dunkirk evacuation (The Miracle of Dunkirk... 13 KB (1,337 words) - 02:09, 16 April 2024 |