The Battle for Isurava Fighting on the Kokoda Track in the Heart of the Owen Stanleys [Audiobook] [#425135]

English | ASIN: B09S6T8V43 | 2022 | 14 hours and 56 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 410 MB
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 mid-August, 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 Australia's Thermopylae. It was here that Australia's first Victoria Cross in the Pacific war was awarded when the Japanese conducted several ferocious attacks against the Australian perimetre.