TheCodeBreakers
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
annaabi.ee 
