A Last Secret
Killing New Zealand Coast Watchers
Long forgotten story of murdered coast watchers as told by families
New Zealand placed a 17 strong group of civilians and soldiers on the Gilbert Islands - now Kiribati - in the South Pacific during World War Two.
And then left them there, to be seized by Imperial Japanese forces. One afternoon they were all murdered and whil…
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