Events

This work depicts the fighting at Parit Sulong by the men of the 2/15th Australian Field Regiment. A 25 pounder gun is in the lower right corner. This battle became the scene of a massacre at the hands of the Japanese.

A Kokoda chronology

Timeline of key events from 1941 to 1944.
Two graves marked by crosses in mountainous terrain.

Jungle warfare

Fighting in the jungle resembles night fighting.
August1942-Aerial Photo of the terrain south of Kokoda

A fighting retreat

The month from the Japanese landing on 22 July 1942 to the action at Isurava can be seen as an Australian fighting…
Templeton Plaque

Into the mountains

Before Deniki the fighting took place in low lying country north of the Owen Stanley Range.
September 1942-Milne Bay-Painting-William Dargie

Milne Bay Airfield

Milne Bay is on the eastern tail of New Guinea...
November 1942-Eora Creek-Narrow Footbridge-logs

The tide turns

At the end of September 1942 the Japanese retreated from their southernmost point of advance, just 40 kilometres from…
18th Australian Infantry Brigade, 2/6th Australian Armoured Regiment; Australian infantrymen attacking Japanese positions, supported by tanks. [Artist: Geoffrey Mainwaring]

The Japanese besieged—the Battle of the Beachheads: Buna, Gona, Sanananda

From mid-November 1942 to the end of January 1943, the Australians and the Americans reduced the Japanese base in the…