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28th Māori Battalion in World War II
Nearly 16,000 Māori men signed up to go to the Second World War. There were four companies in the Māori Battalion; those companies were arranged on the basis of the iwi (major tribal) and canoe affiliations of the soldiers; select an area on the map to see the information about that particular company.