Kokoda Track
New Guinea was the location of some very important battles 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 the
These men had the fate of Port Moresby and Australia in their hands. General Horii's drive to the south came to a stop. In Rabaul, the commander of the Japanese XVII Army, Lieutenant-General Harukichi Hyakutake, astounded by how quick and easily his troops had advanced he ordered Horii to make an attack on Port Moresby. Eather's 25th Brigade on September 14, the Japanese were held at Ioribaiwa Ridge. Re-grouping at Kokoda, Horii's troops quickly grew to an astounding amount of 10,000 front-line troops, despite Allied air attacks. F reinforcements time to be brought up the Track. On August 26, the Japanese landed at Milne Bay, and kept on progressing from Kokoda to Isurava. General Rowell approved this withdrawal, but stressed that "any further withdrawal is out of the question and Eather must fight it out at all costs. 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. On August 12, Lieutenant-General Sydney F.
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