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HOW A FEW DARING MEN TRAPPED ON JAPANESE ISLANDS WARNED THE OF ENEMY ATTACKS ALLIES THE€OAST WBTGHERS COMMANDER BY FELDT ERIC A. R.A,N, ILLUSTRATED EDITION ''They saved Guadalcanal, and Guadalcanal saved the South Pacific, ^^ — Admiral "Bull" Halsey THE COAST WATGHERS by ERIC A. FELDT They watched and waited in nerve- wracking silence, attacking only when stung. From treetops, from hostile beaches, from jungle camps, they saw — it all and radioed what they saw their network covering more than a half mil- lion square miles of island and ocean in the Japanese-held South Pacific. Hunted by enemy patrols, hounded by disease, starvation and sweltering heat, they risked torture and death from the heart of a Japanese-occupied tropical hell. Here are stories of incredible daring — and brilliant leadership of a hand- picked and highly unorthodox band of heroes who preferred the teeming jun- gle to the crowded regimentation of — camp and office told with gripping immediacy by the officer who led them. (continued on hack flap) Rook Club Edition THE COAST WATCHERS I THE COAST WATCHERS COMMANDER ERIC A. FELDT, ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVY O.B.E., With a Foreword by GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR A. Nelson Doubleday, Inc. Garden City, New York THE COAST WATCHERS Published by arrangement with Bantam Books, Inc. PRINTING HISTORY First published by Oxford University Press Bantam edition / March 1979 Drawings by Greg Beecham. Maps by Alan McKnight. All rights reserved. © Copyright 1946, 1959 by Oxford University Press. © Illustrations copyright 1979 by Bantam Books, Inc. This book may not be reproduced in whole or in part, by mimeograph or any other means, without permission. For information address: Bantam Books, Inc. Published simultaneously in the United States arui Canada PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AUTHOR'S ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The author acknowledges with gratitude the assistance rendered to him by the Director of Naval Intelligence, Melbourne (Com- mander R. B. M. Long, O.B.E., R.A.N.), and his staff in mak- ing records available for the writing of this book. Particular acknowledgment is due to Lieutenant-Commander m G. H. Gill, M.B.E., R.A.N.V.R., literary adviser the early stages; to Mr. Firmin McKinnon of the Courier Mail, Brisbane, for his helpful criticism; to Lieutenant Paul McGuire, R.A.N.V.R., in the latter stages; and to other officers for their assistance in compiling the records. Lastly, and most of all, thanks are due to my wife who cod- dled me back to sufficient health, in spite of my rebellious self, to undertake the task of authorship, and then put up with me while I wrote. E. A. F. 7 July 1946
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