When Japanese soldiers stormed Papua New Guinea on July 21, 1942, World War II arrived on Australia’s door step, with the start of the Kokoda Track campaign.
An estimated 625 Australians were killed fighting on the mountainous track and more than 1600 were wounded in the bloody five-month campaign fought between Australian and Japanese soldiers.
“The Kokoda Track is one of the most iconic Australian campaigns of the Second World War,” Dr Karl James, head of military history at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra, said on the 80th anniversary.
(Australian War Memorial)
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