The Battle for Isurava Audiobook Libro.fm

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You are trying to survive shirt torn arse out of your pants whiskers a mile long hungry you carry your boots because theres no skin on your feet But when you look around at some of the others hell They look crook you dig a number of holes in the ground and bury your dead Nothing would be said but you think maybe it will be my turn next
Within 24 hours of the Japanese invasion of northern New Guinea at Gona in July 1942 the Australian militiamen of B Company 39th Battalion spent four weeks fighting a delaying action against a crack Japanese force outnumbered by three to one By midAugust the rest of the battalion had arrived and these men took up a position at Isurava in the heart of the cloud covered mountains and jungles of the Owen Stanley Range
The battle for Isurava would be the defining battle of the Kokoda Campaign and has rightfully been described as Australias Thermopylae It was here that Australias first Victoria Cross in the Pacific war was awarded when the Japanese conducted several ferocious attacks against the Australian perimetre
The outnumbered and poorly equipped Australians managed to hold back the Japanese advance for almost a week only then did these battle scared and weary men begin a month long fighting withdraw towards Ioribaiwa Ridge just north of Port Morsby However their sacrifice provided time for the Australian 25th Brigade to be brought forward finally forcing the Japanese to withdrawal just as they glimpsed the lights of Port Morseby
Using diaries letters and other firsthand accounts and following on from The Battles for Kokoda Plateau leading military historian David W Cameron continues his detailed and riveting account of the war in the Owen Stanleys in 1942