Biuku Gasa (27 July 1923 – 23 November 2005) and Eroni Kumana (c. 1918 – 2 August 2014) were Solomon Islanders of Melanesian descent who found John F...

the scene of the story of John F. Kennedy's PT-109; they met Biuku Gasa and Eroni Kumana, the native coastwatcher scouts who found the missing Kennedy...

of Honiara as the United States logistics center. Islanders Biuku Gasa and Eroni Kumana were Allied scouts during the war. They became famous when they...

that Kennedy first spoke to native Melanesian coastwatchers Biuku Gasa and Eroni Kumana on Olasana Island. Months earlier, Kennedy had learned a smattering...

Honiara as the United States logistics centre. Islanders Biuku Gasa (deceased 2005) and Eroni Kumana (Gizo) (deceased 2014) were indigenous Allied scouts...

vicinity of Japanese-held Kolombagara Island. Solomon Islanders Biuku Gasa and Eroni Kumana are portrayed as random natives, when in fact they were dispatched...

discovered the wreck of John F. Kennedy's PT-109 in 2002 and visited Biuku Gasa and Eroni Kumana, who saved its crew. Despite his long successes in shipwrecks...

Islands, John F. Kennedy's PT-109 was rammed and sunk. Islanders Biuku Gasa and Eroni Kumana who found Kennedy and the survivors remember that when they rode...

scouts, Biuku Gasa and Eroni Kumana, dispatched by coastwatcher Reg Evans. A small shrine to Kennedy, built by Solomon Islander Eroni Kumana who aided...

as a complete loss, Evans dispatched Solomon Islander scouts Biuku Gasa and Eroni Kumana in a dugout canoe to search for survivors. The two scouts found...