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70 years ago this month
May 1942 the Battalion is still at Arsal in the Syrian foothills undertaking exercises and manoeuvres. Major Tiwi Love becomes the first Māori commander of the unit. Read the war diary for May 1942 here
U.S. Marines, Wellington 1943
U.S. Marines at Navy Base hospital number 4 with Māori women from local Ngāti Pōneke group, March 1943.
The Marines were recuperating after operations in the Solomon Islands.
Reference:
Photograph supplied by Susan Strange. Held at the U.S. National Archives & Records Administration.
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Submitted by mbadmin on Mon, 22/08/2011 - 15:54. 
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