What it's like to walk the gruelling Kokoda Track (and why you should do it)

May 12 2019 - 5:30am
Pictures: Australian Kokoda Tours

They were never intended for the front line, but the men of the 39th Battalion - initially branded the "chocolate soldiers" and later immortalised as "those ragged bloody heroes" - were thrust into World War II tasked with halting the Japanese advance into Port Moresby. SALLY WILLOUGHBY retraces their fighting withdrawal along the gruelling Kokoda Track.

W. M. Speed.

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