My reading

Summarise - Helping To Win The War

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In page one the story is telling us about how their were getting ready for the war. In the war there were seven thousand soldiers fought in the 28th (Maori) Battalion during the second world war. The Battalion fought mainly in the middle East, North Africa, and Italy. In Aotearoa, Maori schoolchildren helped to raise money to buy a canteen truck for the Battalion.

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In July 1941 at Tuparoa Native school on East Coast of the North Island. All Whanau in their Village were poor. These days Children's never wore shoes because their couldn't afford to buy some. Some children's had got their first shoes in 1950 when their were boarding school. It grave them blisters.

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This  page is about when one of there family joined in to help fight in the war. During the years the children at school use to dug gardens plots and grew vegetables from seeds.

Page 4

Kids from schools used to play war games. There have dug trenches in the sand with their hands, Their used driftwood. The Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbour in Hawaii  in 1941, lots of people were worried that Japan

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The kids were playing then they saw an air plane flying above their head and they fought that it was an enemy plane that was coming to them for war.

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When the truck came to the school and then all of the kids that was at the school they all ran to the  truck and all of the kids was excited and some kinds was talking to the soldiers and some of the others kids looked at bullet holes and they were all excited.And the other soldiers was happy to cause the school fund-raise for them to and after all they had fun  

This is my reading about a maori war.