Those Ragged Bloody Heroes: From the Kokoda Trail to Gona Beach 1942Allen & Unwin, 1.8.2005 - 420 sivua The Kokoda Trail is part of Australian military folklore. During July to September 1942 the Japanese set about the capture of Port Moresby by an overland crossing of the Owen Stanley Range, and a landing in Milne Bay. To oppose a force of 10,000 crack Japanese troops on the Kokoda Trail, the Allies committed one under-trained and poorly-equipped unit - the 39th Battalion, later reinforced by Veterans of the 21st Brigade, 7th Division AIF. These were then men of Maroubra Force. The Australians put up a desperate fight. They withdrew village by village, forcing the Japanese to fight for every inch of ground. Finally at Ioribaiwa, the Japanese turned away, beaten and exhausted. The Australian soldiers' reward for their remarkable achievement was denigration by the High Command - General Blamey called them 'running rabbits'. Then in December 1942 when the fighting at the beachheads had produced little success, the former members of Maroubra Force captured Gona after heavy fighting - but at tragic cost. Those Ragged Bloody Heroes is the story of those battles told as never before, through the eyes of the Australian soldiers who fought there. It is a story that raises serious questions about the planning and command of the Kokoda and Gona campaigns. Those Ragged Bloody Heroes is a stirring history of triumph, tragedy and controversy set in the mud and steaming jungle of the Kokoda Trail and the fireswept beaches at Gona. |
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Tulokset 1 - 5 kokonaismäärästä 13
Sivu 1
... campaigns in Papua in 1942. The 39th and 53rd Battalions of the 30th ( militia ) Brigade were early components of Maroubra Force opposing the Japanese thrust , from the northern landings near Gona , along the Kokoda Trail over the Owen ...
... campaigns in Papua in 1942. The 39th and 53rd Battalions of the 30th ( militia ) Brigade were early components of Maroubra Force opposing the Japanese thrust , from the northern landings near Gona , along the Kokoda Trail over the Owen ...
Sivu 9
... Campaign . This two - army problem was made more obvious by some readily identifiable differences between the two forces . A mili- tiaman was identified by an army number preceded by a letter denoting his state , eg N for NSW , V for ...
... Campaign . This two - army problem was made more obvious by some readily identifiable differences between the two forces . A mili- tiaman was identified by an army number preceded by a letter denoting his state , eg N for NSW , V for ...
Sivu 19
... campaign in Syria . His organisation of the billeting of the 7th Division in Adelaide in March 1942 and his subsequent work in Townsville deploying and structur- ing its defence displayed the professionalism and high ability of this ...
... campaign in Syria . His organisation of the billeting of the 7th Division in Adelaide in March 1942 and his subsequent work in Townsville deploying and structur- ing its defence displayed the professionalism and high ability of this ...
Sivu 20
... Campaign is adamant that Templeton was at least 50 years of age . " Having generally assessed the situation , and requested his quota of AIF officers , Porter proceeded to examine his brigade more closely . Training had been taken to no ...
... Campaign is adamant that Templeton was at least 50 years of age . " Having generally assessed the situation , and requested his quota of AIF officers , Porter proceeded to examine his brigade more closely . Training had been taken to no ...
Sivu 22
... Campaign . It is ludicrous to suggest , as Paull does , that after two days17 in Port Moresby , Porter could have rated Lieutenant - Colonel Ward in this way . Captain Noel Symington MC , 39th Battalion : As the 53rd Battalion performed ...
... Campaign . It is ludicrous to suggest , as Paull does , that after two days17 in Port Moresby , Porter could have rated Lieutenant - Colonel Ward in this way . Captain Noel Symington MC , 39th Battalion : As the 53rd Battalion performed ...
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A desperate baptism | 64 |
On our last bloody legs | 91 |
Confident even cocksure | 106 |
Unawed in the gates of death | 121 |
this way | 213 |
The rabbit that runs | 229 |
To the beachhead | 265 |
Not to reason why 186 265 | 277 |
Embarrassed to be alive | 313 |
Silent | 351 |
Afterword Neil McDonald | 358 |
Notes | 363 |
Ruperts clinic | 156 |
Full of fight but utterly weary | 168 |
A question of momentum | 186 |
Bibliography | 386 |
Index | 392 |
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2/14th Battalion 21st Brigade 25th Brigade 39th Battalion 53rd Battalion 7th Division Abuari Adelaide Alola ambush approximately army arrived attack August Aust Australian battle beach-head Bisset Blamey bloody Born Brigade Hill Brigadier Potts Cameron Captain Katekar casualties command Company Cooper Corporal December defence Deniki Dougherty Dudley McCarthy east Eather Efogi enemy Eora Creek fighting fire forward Gona grenades ground Guinea Force Horii interview Ioribaiwa Isurava Japanese Japs July jungle Kagi Koitaki Kokoda Trail Kumusi kunai Lieutenant Lieutenant-Colonel MacArthur machine-gun Major Major-General March Maroubra Force Menari military militia Milne Bay Missima morning mortar move Myola Naro native Nauro night November officers Oivi ordered Owen Stanley Campaign Owen Stanley Range patrol platoon Port Moresby positions posts Potts's Rabaul Ralph Honner reinforcement right flank Rowell Sanananda September Sergeant soldier South-West Pacific stretcher Sublet supply Symington Templeton track troops Vasey village withdrawal wounded yards
Suositut otteet
Sivu ix - This story shall the good man teach his son ; And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered ; We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...
Sivu viii - To-morrow is Saint Crispian : " Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars, And say, " These wounds I had on Crispin's day." Old men forget: yet all shall be forgot, But he'll remember with advantages What feats he did that day. Then shall our names, Familiar in...
Sivu viii - This day is call'd the feast of Crispian. He that outlives this day, and comes safe home, Will stand a tip-toe when this day is named, And rouse him at the name of Crispian. He that shall live this day, and see old age, Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours, And say, "To-morrow is Saint Crispian." Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars, And say "These wounds I had on Crispin's day.
Sivu viii - And rouse him at the name of Crispian. He, that shall live this day, and see old age, Will yearly on the vigil feast his friends, And say — to-morrow is Saint Crispian : Then will he strip his sleeve, and show his scars, And say, these wounds I had on Crispin's day.
Sivu 5 - It is my melancholy duty to inform you officially that, in consequence of a persistence by Germany in her invasion of Poland, Great Britain has declared war upon her, and that, as a result, Australia is also at war.
Sivu x - ... for its commemoration. For heroes have the whole earth for their tomb; and in lands far from their own, where the column with its epitaph declares it, there is enshrined in every breast a record unwritten with no tablet to preserve it, except that of the heart.
Sivu 324 - Were a star quenched on high, For ages would its light, Still travelling downward from the sky, Shine on our mortal sight. So when a great man dies, For years beyond our ken The light he leaves behind him lies Upon the paths of men.
Sivu x - For this offering of their lives made in common by them all they each of them individually received that renown which never grows old, and for a sepulchre, not so much that in which their bones have been deposited, but that noblest of shrines wherein their glory is laid up to be eternally remembered upon every occasion on which deed or story shall call for its commemoration.
Sivu xi - They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them.