The Kokoda Track campaign or Kokoda Trail campaign was part of the Pacific War of World War II. The campaign consisted of a series of battles fought between...
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The Kokoda Track or Trail is a single-file foot thoroughfare that runs 96 kilometres (60 mi) overland – 60 kilometres (37 mi) in a straight line – through...
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Kokoda is a station town in the Oro Province of Papua New Guinea. It is famous as the northern end of the Kokoda Track, site of the eponymous Kokoda Track...
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Allied logistics in Papua played a crucial role in bringing the Kokoda Track campaign to a successful conclusion. "The great problem of warfare in the...
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battle listing the Australian and Japanese forces involved in the Kokoda Track campaign from 21 July – 16 November 1942. New Guinea Force (Port Moresby)...
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The Kokoda Track Memorial Walkway is a walking track and war memorial located in the suburb of Concord West, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is...
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Battle of Buna–Gona (redirect from Buna campaign)
part of the New Guinea campaign in the Pacific theatre during World War II. It followed the conclusion of the Kokoda Track campaign and lasted from 16 November...
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experiences of Australian troops fighting Japanese forces during the 1942 Kokoda Track campaign. Due to budgetary restrictions, Grierson and co-writer John Lonie...
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The Battle of Kokoda consisted of two engagements fought in late July – early August 1942. Forming part of the Kokoda Track campaign of the Second World...
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History of Oceania (section Kokoda Track campaign)
Kokoda Track campaign before they were finally defeated in 1945. Some of the most prominent Oceanic battlegrounds were the Solomon Islands campaign,...
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Kokoda Barracks is an Australian Army base located in the Canungra Military Area near Witheren, Queensland. It is named after the Kokoda Track campaign...
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representative of the actual Kokoda Track, along which elements of the Australian Army fought during the Kokoda Track Campaign of World War 2. The 39-hour...
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Bruce Kingsbury (section Kokoda Track Campaign)
actions during the Battle of Isurava, one of many battles forming the Kokoda Track Campaign in the south-east of the island of New Guinea, then part of the...
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repulsed the Japanese at Milne Bay, but a series of defeats in the Kokoda Track campaign had a depressing effect back in Australia. On 30 August, MacArthur...
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overland attack on Port Moresby along the Kokoda Track. The landing marked the start of the Kokoda Track campaign. The landings were not directly opposed...
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Maroubra Force (category Kokoda)
Moresby, Papua New Guinea from the Japanese, and was involved in the Kokoda Track Campaign of the Pacific War, World War II. The force was established by the...
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Thomas Blamey (section Papuan campaign)
Curtin, he assumed personal command of New Guinea Force during the Kokoda Track campaign, and relieved Lieutenant General Sydney Rowell under controversial...
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was the final major battle of the Kokoda Track campaign before the Battle of Buna–Gona. Following the capture of Kokoda by Australian forces on 2 November...
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William T. Owen (category Kokoda)
he was killed in action leading the 39th Battalion during the Kokoda Track campaign. Owen was born on 27 May 1905, in Nagambie, Victoria. He worked...
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Information Bureau and Cinesound Productions Limited in 1942, about the Kokoda Track campaign. It was one of four winners of the 15th Academy Awards for best...
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6th Division (Australia) (section Kokoda to Buna–Gona)
the New Guinea campaign. In New Guinea, its component brigades had a major role in the successful counter-offensive along the Kokoda Track, at Buna–Gona...
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1942-05-04 – 1942-05-08 Battle of the Coral Sea 1942-07-01 – 1943-01-31 Kokoda Track Campaign 1942-08-25 – 1942-09-05 Battle of Milne Bay 1942-11-19 – 1943-01-23...
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well-known Kokoda Track. The Kapa Kapa Trail across the Owen Stanley divide was a 'dank and eerie place, rougher and more precipitous' than the Kokoda Track on...
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Crossing is a locality on the Kokoda Track in New Guinea. The original track, at the start of the Kokoda Track campaign, proceeded north from Kagi and...
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Mambare River east of Kokoda. The creek was the site of a significant battle during World War II, part of the Kokoda Track Campaign fought from 31 August...
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is considered particularly notable for his leadership during the Kokoda Track Campaign, during which he commanded the 39th Battalion, which fought a series...
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part of the New Guinea campaign in the Pacific theatre during World War II. It followed the conclusion of the Kokoda Track campaign and lasted from 16 November...
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Sydney Rowell (section Kokoda Track)
the Battle of Greece and the Syria-Lebanon campaign. In 1942 he commanded I Corps in the Kokoda Track campaign but was sacked. His subsequent rise to become...
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airfield acting as a trailhead up the Kokoda Track to the foothills village of Kokoda (see Kokoda Track campaign). During World War II, Imperial Japanese...
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an important supply dropping area and staging point during the Kokoda Track campaign. In later life, he was recognised for his contribution to the development...
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