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the kokoda track un edited

Uploaded by chambers1 on Oct 27, 2013

The kokodatrack

One of Australia's bloodiest war campaigns ever fought during ww2. in retaliation to the darwin bombings australia started recruitment mainly young 16 to 30 year old men who have never seen combat before. the japanese first landed ashore near gona on the northern coast of new guinea on the 21st july1942 to begin the invasion of new Guinea how ether this was not there proffered invasion point which was to have been a full blown sea borne assault on port Moresby. earlier on in the 5-8 may 1942 the battle of the coral sea was a failure as a lot of ships where lost on both sides but australia had beaten the japanese navy soundly. the aftermath had left the japanese navy no other choice but to retreat to northern coast of new guinea because they no longer had sufficient naval strength to support an invasion attack by sea. there plan was to isolate australia as a usable base for allies by indirecting the air and sea lanes from port Moresby. the allied forces which were initially allocated to the defense of new guinea in 1941 consisted of the 39th,49th and 53rd militia battalions of the australian army all newly raised for home services only and poorly equipped and trained there were supply problems,training problems, ammunition shortages no mail. In may 1942 the australian 3rd, 36th, and 55th militia battalions were ordered to port Moresby and the american 32nd and 41st division arrived in australia which later went to new guinea. the papuan infantry battalion (PIB) who were assigned to defend kokoda joined the 39th battalion and later became known as the (maroubra force) defenses and man power was slowly building up however the initial japanese landing of only 2000 later to be followed by 10,000 men in mid august where quick and strong enough to deal with the ill organized australians found facing. ...

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Date:   10/27/2013

Category:   World War II

Length:   6 pages (1,266 words)

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