New Zealand was part of the British Commonwealth war effort and did supply soldiers to fight during the war. Their soldiers were some of the best to fight in North Africa, but they mostly fought the Japanese closer to home.
I'm going with sloppy writing. Besides, they weren't neutral.
Should be something more like "in peacetime, suffered its first ship loss since WW2." I mean, TGP is great at bringing our flavor of news, and they explain what happens well enough, so it's not like I hate them. And they're clearly on our side. But it would still be nice if they actually paid attention to editing. Oh, well.
It's worth reporting, and the article is mostly good. And that's a massive fail.
But ... first peacetime loss since WW2? Are we to understand their last peacetime loss was during the war?
Maybe it was because New Zealand was neutral during WW2?
New Zealand was part of the British Commonwealth war effort and did supply soldiers to fight during the war. Their soldiers were some of the best to fight in North Africa, but they mostly fought the Japanese closer to home.
Rommel is his papers wrote about the New Zealand Maori units they faced in North Africa.
Fiercest fighters his men faced during the war
I'm going with sloppy writing. Besides, they weren't neutral.
Should be something more like "in peacetime, suffered its first ship loss since WW2." I mean, TGP is great at bringing our flavor of news, and they explain what happens well enough, so it's not like I hate them. And they're clearly on our side. But it would still be nice if they actually paid attention to editing. Oh, well.