Nash and his fellow Coastwatcher, “Reg” Evans, a slightly built, thirty-eight-year-old former steamship accountant and native of Sydney, Australia, had one of the loneliest and riskiest jobs of the Pacific War. Armed only with a few small arms, binoculars, a telescope, a compass, logbook, and canned rations, they and several hundred other Coastwatchers lived behind enemy lines in a network of tiny isolated outposts scattered across a 2,500-mile arc from the west of New Guinea, through the New Hebrides and the Solomons, which alone had twenty-three outposts.
