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Aitape-Wewak Campaign, November 1944 to August 1945

About the campaignThe Aitape-Wewak jungle campaign was challenging, and casualties mounted from battle and disease.

Alan Ward - World War II veteran (Oral history)

Australians in the Kokoda Track Campaign 21 July to 16 November 1942

Importance of Port MoresbyJapanese forces were landing on the north coast of Papua from July 1942. Their aim was to take Port Moresby from the Allies.

Capture of German outposts in the Pacific 1914

Australia's first actions in World War IBefore the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) sailed for Egypt in Dece

Clifford Brice - Stretcher-bearing (Video)

Born on Anzac Day 1920 in Kingswood, South Australia, Clifford Brice enlisted in the Australian Army on 26 July 1940 at Southwark. He was 20 years old.

Conditions for soldiers at Kokoda

The supply problemHalf the Australians who served in New Guinea never fired a shot at the enemy. Their jobs were to deliver the supplies the combat soldiers needed.

Doug Rouse - World War II veteran (Oral history)

Gordon Wallace: Stories of Service (Video), (Online lesson), (Student activity), (Educational)

Gordon Wallace enlisted in the Second Australian Imperial Force (AIF) in 1940. He went on to serve in North Africa and New Guinea during the Second World War. This tells the story of Gordon's service…

Jungle warfare for Australians on the Kokoda Track

Jungle warfare at KokodaIn 1942, Australian and Japanese troops struggled to fight in mist and heavy rain in the jungle along the Kokoda Track.

Mick Rudkins - World War II veteran (Oral history)

Peter Dixon - World War II veteran (Oral history)

Reginald Saunders: Stories of Service (Online lesson), (Video), (Student activity), (Educational)

Reginald Walter Saunders was from the Gunditjmara people of southern Victoria. His father and uncle had served in the First World War, which motivated Reg to enlist in the Second Australian Imperial…
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