EI Kharga. Egypt 90 2S'27'N 30'33 'E Fresndlo. Mex!Co 76 23'10'N 102'SIW Guadalaj31a, MeXICO 76 20'4~'N 103'21'W 'OO'W Ellesmere I, Island 75 83' OO'N 16' OOW Fresno.CA 50 36' 45'N 119' 46W Guadalcanal l , ls/and 103 10'00'5 160'oo'E lasl. Romania 84 41' ION 21'36'E 827'W EllJo t Lake, Canada 74 46' 23'N 82'39W Frla. C , cape 91 18' 00'5 12' OO'E Guadalupe I, Island 77 29' OO'N 118'00'W Ibadan, N'gefla 90 7' 24N 3'S3'E ' S6'W s..g.1 .........
But at 9:30 that morning he received a 20-group message enciphered in Playfair, the coastwatchers' cipher system. He deciphered it with key ROYAL NEW ZEALAND NAVY and learned, PT boat one owe nine lost in action in Blackett Strait two miles SW Meresu Cove X Crew of twelve X Request any information X. He reported back to the coastwatcher near Munda, whose call-sign was PWD, that Object still floating between Meresu and Gizo, and at 1:12 p.m. he was told by the coastwatcher station KEN on Guadalcanal that there was a possibility of survivors landing either Vangavanga or islands. This was just what Kennedy and his crew had done. They had swum to Plum Pudding Island, one of a group that hangs from the southeastern tip of Gizo Island. This group was behind enemy lines, and Gizo itself, only three or four miles away, was garrisoned by Japanese troops. Though messages about the missing crew continued to stream for the rest of the week between PWD, KEN, and GSE, as Evans called his station