tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1327826536005692170.post43011534461187990..comments2023-08-24T07:27:12.657-07:00Comments on Contra O'Reilly: On the Fact that 77 Australian Soldiers Held Off a Significantly Larger Contingent of Japanese Troops for Days on the Kokoda Track Near Port Moresby, Papua, New Guinea (Prior to Ultimately Capitulating)Will "take no prisoners" Harthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02315659209094683602noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1327826536005692170.post-34462350917337528322015-03-24T11:59:14.653-07:002015-03-24T11:59:14.653-07:00New Guinea was a bitter fight.
click here sent the...New Guinea was a bitter fight.<br /><a href="Emperor%20MacArthur" rel="nofollow">click here</a> sent the only available<br />troops, the Wisconsin National Guard over the Owen Stanleys, one regimental combat team by foot over the even worse Kapa Kapa trail on the Aussies right. With<br />no tanks and little artillery,<br />Dugout Doug ordered them to oust<br />the 'lightly held' fortifications in the swamps between Buna and Gona. There were 16.000 Japanese<br />infantry in hundreds of cocoanut<br />log bunkers and the US 32nd Division was mangled quite badly<br />in the constant assaults ordered<br />from the comfort of MacArthur's opulent Brisbane HQ. Of the Wisconsin vets of that campaign<br />that I knew, they hated the General to a man..and every one<br />of them still shook from malaria.<br />the ANZACs were so good that Churchill resisted returning them from his N. Africa campaign, even<br />though they saved his and Monty's<br />sorry asses. Lots of interesting<br />history in that little corner of<br />WWII<br />BB-Idahohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01388509941702241290noreply@blogger.com