A frontline infantry unit made up entirely of volunteers, battle there way through foreign land in aid of allie forces.
In 1941 over 500 members of the Māori Battalion landed in Crete, faced with certain defeat the soldiers employ a style of warfare that would make the Germans remember them as feared opponents in close-quarter combat.
Field Marshall Erwin Rommel, the famous Commander of the German Afrika Korps, once said, "Give me a Maori Battalion and I will conquer the world."
they were warriors equal to any but they also feel the importance of things spiritual.
Tuturu whakamaua kia tina,haumi e, hui e, taiki e!.