Kokoda: Countdown To Battle (Part 3)

What happened to the 35,000 rations that never reached Myola? Why were the Japanese so much better than the Australians at fighting in the jungle in July 1942? How did Ralph Honner rebuild the exhausted 39th Battalion before the Battle of Isurava?

Join Al Murray and James Holland for part 3 of Kokoda, as the Japanese land at Buna and Gona and take Kokoda, the militiamen of the 39th fight a desperate series of withdrawals, and Brigadier Potts's 21st Brigade reaches Myola to find the promised supplies missing. With Papuan carriers and ANGAU officers like Bert Kienzle holding the supply line together, it is a story of logistics, mistakes and endurance on one of the hardest tracks in the world.

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