Kokoda Track New Guinea was the location of some very important battles by the Australian Army to fight back the invasion of the Japanese Army. The main burden of the fight to force the Japanese to retreat over the Owen Stanley Ranges was left to the Australian Army. If the Japanese successfully crossed the mountain range and had successfully invaded Port Moresby they were only a very short distance away from Australia. The Allied Forces …showed first 75 words of 761 total…

…showed last 75 words of 761 total…Kokoda Trail, but this is wrong. The Americans started this because they didn’t know what a track was. The real name is the Kokoda Track. And that was the story of the Kokoda Track. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography** Bibliography Reader’s Digest Illustrated Story of World War II Published 1970 by The Readers Digest Association Proprietary Limited Those Ragged Bloody Heroes Peter Brune Published in 1991 by Allen & Unwin Pty Ltd Australian War Memorial www.awm.gov.au