Post by steve on Nov 25, 2005 1:01:37 GMT 12
Commemorative booklet compliled by June and Jack Hinton MBE (former Nth Shore Mayor) published with a small asistance from myself and many others ...published in 1992.
This booklet was the insight by the late Jack H. to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the friendly invasion of New Zealand and to give detailed information(maps and photos) of every US camp/base establishment in New Zealand between June 1942 and October 1944 in honour of the forgotten young US heros ...many of them dying in the islands in defence of the south pacific..
With his determination to reverse a post Vietnam anti american sentiment in this country he assured me that he would establish a monument at every major US encampment in NZ...and that to my supprise he achieved....(thanks to his Local and Central Govt friends and supporters) Available at public Libraries there are many aerial camp pics including the airfields of whenuapai ,ardmore and seagrove..well worth a look up...
This booklet was the insight by the late Jack H. to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the friendly invasion of New Zealand and to give detailed information(maps and photos) of every US camp/base establishment in New Zealand between June 1942 and October 1944 in honour of the forgotten young US heros ...many of them dying in the islands in defence of the south pacific..
With his determination to reverse a post Vietnam anti american sentiment in this country he assured me that he would establish a monument at every major US encampment in NZ...and that to my supprise he achieved....(thanks to his Local and Central Govt friends and supporters) Available at public Libraries there are many aerial camp pics including the airfields of whenuapai ,ardmore and seagrove..well worth a look up...
