Coastwatchers
Coastwatchers were that small band of Americans and SACO Chinese who efficiently spotted and reported enemy movements of shipping and troops along China’s seacoast.
The Coast watchers net extended from a point not far south of Shanghai to Canton and headquartered at Changchow, Fukien Province.
In Dec. 1944, with the loss of the US Army’s airfields in central China, the job of sealing up the China coast to Japanese shipping had to be done by submarines and naval air groups stationed in the Philippines in conjunction with the US 14th Air Force based at Kunming. Accurate information was essential.
The circumstances which led to the creation of the Area VI Intelligence Net are closely related to the establishment of Camp 6.