-Limited visibility, can only see about 20 meters ahead.\
-Terrains were dense jungle areas on mountains, experiencing heavy rainfall and frequent mist.
-Men were buried on the track, conditions were so rough, which resulted in casualties.
A Fighting Retreat
-Japanese forces landed at Basabua.
-Intelligence revealed that Japanese forces had more numbers than Australia and Papua combined.
-They made the decision to remove themselves following the realization that if they stayed, they would be surrounded and annihilated.
The Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels
-Fuzzy Wuzzy Angel, Raphael Oimbari escorts digger, George "Dick" Whittington, back to safety.
-The Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels carry supplies to the front and escorted the wounded back, sometimes transporting stretchers under enemy fire and across mountain terrain.
-A total of 49,500 PNG (Papua New Guinea) war carriers were deployed to help Australian soldiers as they defended Port Morseby.
Into The Mountains (Templetons Crossing)
-Secondly, Maroubra force was strongly re-enforced and abandoning a delay and retire policy, the Australians made three determined unsuccessful attempts to stop the Japanese
Malaria and Dysentery
-Initial defeat suffered by the Australians at PNG can be blamed on sickness (Malaria and Dysentery).
-Sickness is believed to be what caused defeat of the last Japanese force.
-The main problem for the Australians on the Kokoda Track, was Dysentery.
The Fighting Temeraire
The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up, 1838 is an oil painting by the English artist J. M. W. Turner. HMS Temeraire was one of the last second-rate ships of the line to have played a distinguished role in the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. [more]
The Hireling Shepherd
This is a painting by William Holman Hunt, a leading British Pre-Raphaelite.
Ophelia
Ophelia is a painting by British artist Sir John Everett Millais, completed between 1851 and 1852. It depicts Ophelia, a character from Hamlet, singing before she drowns in a river in Denmark. [more]
The Music Lesson
The Music Lesson or Lady at the Virginals with a Gentleman by Jan Vermeer, is a painting of young female pupil receiving the titular music lesson. [more]
