Kapa Kapa Trail - 32nd Infantry Division March

32nd Infantry Division March


New Guinea campaign
  • Rabaul (land battle)
  • Salamaua–Lae Invasion
  • Coral Sea
  • Buna–Gona Invasion
  • Kokoda Track
  • Milne Bay
  • Goodenough Island
  • Buna–Gona
  • Wau
  • Bismarck Sea
  • I-Go
  • Salamaua–Lae campaign
  • Chronicle
  • Cartwheel
  • Finisterres
  • Huon Peninsula
  • Bougainville
  • New Britain
  • Admiralties
  • Emirau
  • Take Ichi
  • Western New Guinea
  • Aitape–Wewak

During the early stages of World War II, Australian Army units in the Kokoda Track campaign were under increasing pressure from Japanese forces that had advanced to within 30 miles (48 km) of Port Moresby. On 9 September, the Australian 6th Division's 16th Infantry Brigade was ordered from Australia to Port Moresby. The 25th Brigade, which had just arrived in Port Moresby, was immediately pushed to the front. General Sydney Rowell felt he could contain the Japanese with the extra troops, but MacArthur was anxious to flank the Japanese. He asked his staff to plan a flanking maneuver that would push the Japanese off the mountains more quickly.

Other Japanese units were routed to seize Samarai, an island south of Milne Bay, from which they would launch a seaborne invasion of Port Moresby. When they found that the Allies were building up Milne Bay at the southernmost tip of New Guinea, they chose to attack it instead. This effort was blunted by a vigorous Allied defense, and the Japanese withdrew on the night of 4–5 September 1942.

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