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Memories of naval battle still fresh

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As Anzac Day approaches, Wynsley Wrigley talks to a survivor of the last battle in the Pacific theatre of World War 2,  actually fought after the Japanese had surrendered...

Ken Gordon, survivor of kamikaze attacks and the last combat action of World War 2, has been told he is Gisborne’s last surviving veteran of World War 2.

“That’s what I’ve been told, and I don’t know of any (l...


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