Helping to win the war
- More than seven thousand soldiers fought in the 28th(Maori) Battalion during the second war.
- AT home in Aotearoa Maori school children helped to raise money to buy a canteen truck for the Battalion.
- Dick Grace writes about his memories of the war years, including helping to raise money for the truck as a school boy.
- I started school in July 1941 at Tuparoa Native school on the East Coast of the North Island.
- All the whanau in our village were poor, but we never went short for food.
- My eldest brother and some of my cousins joined the army and went away to war.
- During the war years, the children at our school dug garden plots and grew vegetables from seeds.
- After the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbour in Hawai’i in 1941
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