Tarawa

Events In History

Memorial to New Zealand coastwatchers on Tarawa

15 October 1942

New Zealand coastwatchers executed by the Japanese

Seventeen New Zealand coastwatchers and five civilians captured in the Gilbert Islands (now Kiribati) were beheaded at Betio, Tarawa.

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Tarawa coastwatchers memorial