They were busy fighting and surviving - there was no time for entertainment.
Like all good soldiers they adapted themselves to it.
josh muscat again
The Papua New Guinea Natives
Soldiers dug weapon pits for protection.
They probably slept where they could off the trail .
In the battle of Kokoda, the Australians fought in harsh conditions along the Kokoda Track. They fought the Japanese at Eora Creek, TempletonÕs Crossing, Efogi, Mission Ridge and Ioribaiwa. By mid-September, the Japanese withdrew from the Kokoda Track, defeated and depleted of supplies.
The Kokoda Trail Campaign or Kokoda Track Campaign ,located in Papua , New Guinea , was a series of battles fought between July and November 1942 between Japanese and mostly Australian combatants .
To stop the approaching Japanese armies, kokoda is right next to the cape york peninsula, a few hundred kilometres away, The Japanese wished to press further south past kokoda in order to capture ports and set up airbases to bombard the Australian coast and possibly support an invasion of Australia. In the end Australian soldiers were on the Kokoda Track to prevent the Japanese advance which they succeeded in doing after months of fighting
The first battle of Kokoda occurred on July 23, 1942. The second battle began on August , 1942. The entire Kokoda Track campaign lasted from July 21st to November 16th.
The soldiers fighting against the Japanese on the Kokoda Trail were given invaluable help by the native Papua New Guineans, who were affectionately known as the "Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels".
The men of the Australian Army were veterans of fighting in the New Guinea Campaign.
There were 2700 Japanese Soldiers but only 7750 survived