To: naturalman1975
Most Americans think the war in the Pacific was an almost total American affair. Not so by a long shot. We could not have had a better ally than Australia. The Australian Troops were some of the best troops in WW2. Their heroic battle on the Kokoda Trail is a part of the Pacific Campaign that most Americans don't know about but should. If the Japanese could not have been turned back by the determined Australian Troops, Port Moresby would have fallen along with all of New Guinea. It could have been a disaster if that happened. But it didn't happen and this is story that needs more attention. In a way it was as important as Guadalcanal.
Does anyone on FR know of any movies made about this battle? If so, I'd like to check them out.
13 posted on
06/09/2010 5:28:57 PM PDT by
truthguy
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To: truthguy
There's a 2006 Australian movie called Kokoda. Pretty good.
14 posted on
06/09/2010 5:32:18 PM PDT by
naturalman1975
("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
To: truthguy
I had never heard of it, and I am a WW2 buff...
It sounds a bit like commenting on Bataan...
17 posted on
06/09/2010 5:48:42 PM PDT by
ltc8k6
To: truthguy
A bit off, but a grate book, Quartered Safe Out Here (1992),george macdonald fraser, a memoir of his experiences as an infantryman in the Border Regiment during the Burma Campaign of World War II.
24 posted on
06/09/2010 6:37:09 PM PDT by
Leisler
("Over time they create a legal system that plunders and a moral code that glorifies it." F. Bastiat)
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