Kokoda Track
New Guinea was the location of some very important battles in WW2 by the Australian Army to fight back the invasion of the Japanese Army.The main burden of the fight to force the Japanese to retreat over the Owen Stanley Ranges was left to the Australian Army. If the Japanese successfully crossed the mountain range and had successfully invaded Port Moresby they were only a very short distance away from Australia. The Allied Forces had to defeat them before this could happen. This job was placed in the hands of the Australian Army, and the story of the Kokoda Track was now in action.The Japanese had decided to invade Port Moresby with a fleet of ships, as Port Moresby if captured made Australia significantly easy to invade. This invasion was turned back by the Battle of the Coral Sea. As the Japanese first invasion of Port Moresby did not go through, the Japanese sent a fleet of 1,800 men to the Buna-Gona area on July 21, 1942, to determine whether or not the Kokoda Track was of any value to attack Port Moresby.Major-General Tomitaro Horii's troops were confronted with hardly any opposition from
Re-grouping at Kokoda, Horii's troops quickly grew to an astounding amount of 10,000 front-line troops, despite Allied air attacks. With the Japanese still around, the Australians fought a strategic withdrawal from Isurava, and by the September 7 the Japanese had captured Myola, Kagi and Efogi. Potts returned to Port Moresby to report the situation. Eather's 25th Brigade on September 14, the Japanese were held at Ioribaiwa Ridge. On August 26, the Japanese landed at Milne Bay, and kept on progressing from Kokoda to Isurava. Many things like fighting in almost impassable terrain, engulfed in mud, drenched with the heavy tropical rain, malaria spreading fast through the Battalion, dysentery and jungle rot, had worn them out. Brigadier Porter relieved Potts and took command on September 10. About 50 Japanese men were killed in this ambush; this was the last enemy patrol to cross the Ioribaiwa Ridge. When two 25-pounder guns were brought in on September 21, their first shots by these guns marked a turnaround for the advance of the Japanese troops in New Guinea. F reinforcements time to be brought up the Track. And that was the story of the Kokoda Track.
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