KNEW HIS TREES.
A Fiji scent wno knows his trees saved an American reconnaissance force Political freedom means the right of people to govern themselves.—Wendell Willkie. on a recent foray in the Solomons. Inching up a river, the Americans ran into deadly mortar fire. Field glasses swept the valley but the enemy could not be detected. Then the Fijian scout pointed to a cluster of trees on a hillside. “It’s the first time I’ve ever seen that kind of tree growing anywhere but beside the water,” he said. Fire was concentrated on the trees and out popped a .Japanese mortar crew. The Americans picked the Japts off as they scrambled up the hillside.
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Kaikoura Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 58, 27 July 1944, Page 1
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