Posted on 06/02/2019 4:13:42 AM PDT by C19fan
Incredible photos have captured the extraordinary moment Maori soldiers performed a haka in North Africa during World War II. The images show members of the Maori Battalion's 'C company' at a training camp in Helwan, Egypt as they presented a haka during a ceremonial parade in June 1941. The dance was their way of welcoming King George II, his wife the Queen, his cousin Prince Peter, and Major General Freyberg, who arrived in Egypt months after the battalion had escaped an invasion in Crete. The visitors were treated to entertainment by two divisions, the B company, and the C company, both who performed hakas.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
About 649 were killed in action but the unit was considered the most highly decorated of the New Zealand army.
'The elite German paratroopers were terrified of the ANZACs specifically because the Maori battalion would take ears as trophies (whether the German who owned them was alive or not),' one said.
To freak out Fallschirmjäger is impressive.
Interesting verbage in the article: “escaped an invasion”.
More technically correct might be: Strategic Withdrawal
Then at the time Goebbels (the hero of our MSM) would have referred to it as a cowardly escape.
They must mean George VI
Proud Maori keep on burnin’
Watch the bizarre savagery of a Maori Haka, and you can understand why civilized peoples did their best to destroy primitive populations.
You mean like Africans?
Friesland
And Picts
This Thread Is Useless Without Picts.
Gedanken experiment: Maoris vs. Gurkhas - who would win?
... the same Maori Battalion's 'C company' at the training camp. The haka was their way of welcoming the royals in a ceremonial parade months after the soldiers had escaped an invasion in Crete. Picture credit: Department of Internal Affairs, Alexander Turnbull Library
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