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  1. 22nd April 2006, 12:00 AM #1
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    Default go and see the movie Kokoda

    it puts other things in perspective. A very good movie.
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    Whats it about?
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    Quote Originally Posted by ss_11000
    Whats it about?
    Oh dear. Young fella tut tut.
    Its about Australian soldiers in New Guinea during the 2nd War. The Kokoda trail is part of Australian military folklore. Its a pity they stopped teaching history in schools.
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    so thats where i've heard that word before........

    yep, history lessons are crap, most of what you learn about is irrelevant to the topic.
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    Stirlo, as an ANZAC Day learning exercise, please read this. It is not too long.
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    Bite your tongue, soth - hard!!!!!
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    interesting read.....should make a good movie, i'll try to go see it but dont think time will permit as i'm at a hockey camp all next week.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Groggy
    Stirlo, as an ANZAC Day learning exercise, please read this. It is not too long.
    Good link, it will make me appriciate Next week all the more.

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    And here I was thinking that the Yanks and MacArthur had beaten the Japanese on the Kokoda Trail.
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    And here I was thinking that the Yanks and MacArthur had beaten the Japanese on the Kokoda Trail.
    For history buffs, the first real defeat the Japanese suffered was at the hands of the Australians during the Battle of Milne Bay.

    This shook their confidence and began a series of losses. For the Aussies, it marked the good use of air power in close support of ground troops. Bluey Truscott was there for the Air Force and, for the Army, a VC was won by a CPL who attacked three machine gun nests with a Bren and grenades, he was killed in front of the third and last gunpit.

    Japanese brutality was especially bad at this battle.

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    Milne..... why is that name familiar?
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    If you have the time, read the book Kokoda by Peter Fitzsimons. You will come away with a new respect for the Aussie reservists and a new outlook on the "great ????" Douglas MacArthur and the Australian Generals, more concerned with their own comfort and reputations than the lives of the diggers.
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    Saw the movie today, it's confirmed the word pictures Fitzsimons paints but leaves out most of the horrors that the 39th boys confronted. See the movie but read the book as well!
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