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n. (context historical English) One of the allied military intelligence operatives stationed on remote Pacific island locations during World War II, to observe enemy shipping movements and rescue stranded Allied personnel.
Usage examples of "coastwatcher".
This proved true even after Pickering ig-nored all advice and ordered, from his hospital bed, the evacuation of two Marines operating a Coastwatcher Station on the Japanese-held island of Buka and were in imminent danger of death either from Japanese action or starva-tion.
McCoy-and Hart-had paddled ashore from a submarine onto the enemy-held island of Buka, carrying with them a desperately needed radio and some other supplies for a Coastwatcher team that was supplying information con-cerning Japanese sea and air movements critical for the battle of Guadalcanal.
He made the Makin raid, and he ran the operation when we replaced the Marines with the Coastwatchers on Buka.
Sergeant Koffler spent some time on Buka with the Australian Coastwatchers, Sir.
Earlier, obviously, if there had been a warning from Buka, or from another Coastwatcher station, or even from the radar.
If the Japanese did not yet know about the Coastwatchers, then every effort, clearly, should be made to keep them from finding out, as long as possible.
Admiral Nimitz feels that inasmuch as the Coastwatchers are on Tulagi, theirs are the more credible reports.
In my judgment, it is more important to get Banning’s people here and integrated with the Australian Coastwatchers than it is to send more Army and Marine colonels and Navy captains here so they can start setting up their empires.
Banning was going “up north” to some place called Townesville, Queensland, where the Coastwatchers had their headquarters.
They'll be hidden, man, in blinds, the way coastwatchers are always hidden.
Admiral Nimitz feels that inas-much as the Coastwatchers are on Tulagi, theirs are the more credible reports.
In my judgment, it is more important to get Banning's people here and integrated with the Australian Coastwatchers than it is to send more Army and Marine colo-nels and Navy captains here so they can start setting up their empires.
Ban-ning was going "up north" to some place called Townesville, Queensland, where the Coastwatchers had their headquarters.
On the Fourth of July, we learned from Coastwatchers that the Japanese have started construction of an airfield on Guadalcanal.
Whatever the reasons, both Soames-Haley and Pickering were truly delighted that the problems of Australian-US Cooperation vis-…-vis the Coastwatchers was solved.