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n. (plural of coastwatcher English)
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The Coastwatchers, also known as the Coast Watch Organisation, Combined Field Intelligence Service or Section C, Allied Intelligence Bureau, were Allied military intelligence operatives stationed on remote Pacific islands during World War II to observe enemy movements and rescue stranded Allied personnel. They played a significant role in the Pacific Ocean theatre and South West Pacific theatre, particularly as an early warning network during the Guadalcanal campaign.
Usage examples of "coastwatchers".
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.
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.
Cavendish told me about the lamb - at least four Coastwatchers are slopping through some of the nastiest mountain jungle in the world to get us that information, Captain.
Feldt sent Coastwatchers he had on Guadalcanal across the island from here," he pointed, "through the jungle to see what was going on.
It was covered with a sheet of celluloid, on which had been marked in grease pencil the location of the thirty or more Coastwatchers, together with their radio call signs.