Research Paper On The Kokoda Track

My hypotheses states that the Kokoda track was both physically and mentally challenging for both sides fighting because of Its harsh environment. The Kokoda track happened between July and November of 1942. Kokoda first happened when the Japanese invaded Asia while they made their way down the cities. The Kokoda track had three different locations which the war was fought in; Papua New Guinea, Territory of Asia and the Moguls. The track was 40 km northeast of Port Moresby, and a small village of Warope. The trail was connected to the settlements of Buna, Gona and Sanananda on the north coast. It was on July 21st, 1942 that Japanese troops landed on the bay on the north coast of New Guinea. They the unexpectedly begin to march over the town

Many bombs were dropped by the Japanese with many hitting the Kokoda track not only killing the Australian soldiers but also some of their own. In the Kokoda track the conditions were almost cruel and undesirably hard to deal with. Supplies were small and diseases such as malaria hit the men’s ability to fight. The Australians called the battle, the battle of a lifetime. The fighting on the Kokoda track was an infantryman’s war in the close jungle where the emeries was often not seen by only a few meters’ away from each other. The soldiers would often use a technique called Gorilla. Gorilla is where the soldiers were to hide up in the trees or in the bush. Then their emery walked past and they would jump out while killing the person. This tactic was effective because the number of people who got killed that way. During this campaign, both sides fighting brought in new equipment. This includes: tanks, aircraft and artilleries. This is how the campaign of Kokoda track was fought. The popular large formation sweeping the emeries aside with heroic bayonet charges was far from now it was for the average

Operations in New Guinea were impacted by tropical disease such as: malaria, dengue fever, scrub typhus, tropical vicars, dysentery from a range of causes and fungal infections. Walker a scientist observed that the Kokoda track starts and ends both with Malaria. Different disease had infected both the Japanese’s and Australian soldiers during their time on the Kokoda track. Over 47,000 indigenous people from Papua New Guinea were conscripted into the Australian army to work as a stretcher bearer (people who carry injured soldiers to the hospital before they die). There ascendance towards the Australian army has and would be never forgotten. Australians during the Kokoda period ate certain foods that include: biscuits, bully beef, chocolate, tea and sugar. More foods were brought in half way through these include: tinned fruit, dined potatoes, sausages, vegetables, jam, butter and beans. The Japanese ate: polished rice, biscuits, meat, fish, soy sauce, sugar, pasta and sake. Both teams had little knowledge of the way and they only used the sun to find their way around. The Anzac legend started on the Kokoda track. The legend is rewarded to a soldier who showed courage, pride and endurance towards Australia. The Japanese escaped on little row boats and flew as their lives were at stake. With the Australians come to cross the Kumasi River, the battle of the Kokoda track had come to an end for good. Only 10% of the Japanese troops of