Episode 3 - Australia's Kokoda Campaign

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  • @TheOperationsRoom
    @TheOperationsRoom 8 месяцев назад +190

    It was a pleasure to work with you to tell this important story

    • @effectiveanimations
      @effectiveanimations 8 месяцев назад +20

      Thanks for your help mate. You were part of the original inspiration for this work and your team delivered excellently for Kokoda as per usual.

    • @bales1569
      @bales1569 8 месяцев назад +7

      Great collaboration

    • @iknowurip8151
      @iknowurip8151 8 месяцев назад +4

      real

    • @Nturner822
      @Nturner822 8 месяцев назад +5

      You make for an epic combo

    • @The_ZeroLine
      @The_ZeroLine Месяц назад +1

      Where’s my credit? I did 80% of the work.

  • @paulreilly3904
    @paulreilly3904 Месяц назад +9

    And no mention of the fuzzy wuzzies who did so much of the heavy lifting in support of the allies. Great blokes they were

  • @captainsleeman9787
    @captainsleeman9787 Месяц назад +2

    I have walked Kokoda 4 times and read everything I could find. Was hesitant to watch this, wondering about what I could learn. This was excellent. I recommend it to anyone.

  • @charlieheywood7401
    @charlieheywood7401 7 месяцев назад +8

    This is known as KOKODA TRACK. The difference between a track and trail. " YOU CAN RUN A TRAIL. YOU CAN CAN ONLY WALK A TRACK.". My mates were there and with RESPECTS. Always KOKODA TRACK. Yours truly RETIED GUNNER. HISTORY TEACHER. HEYWOOD F J.

    • @Skipper.17
      @Skipper.17 4 месяца назад +3

      Both are considered correct.

    • @dinkydi172
      @dinkydi172 2 месяца назад +4

      MY FATHER WAS THERE IN THE 2ND 16TH, HE ALWAYS CALLED IT THE TRAIL, SAME AS HIS BROTHER AND MY UNCLE WHO WAS KILLED BY A SNIPER THERE. SO I WILL ALWAYS CALL IT THE TRAIL.

    • @anthonyeaton5153
      @anthonyeaton5153 Месяц назад +1

      It’s not worth arguing about. Stick to history.

  • @K_Kara
    @K_Kara 9 месяцев назад +23

    I'm really enjoying these. Crete and Tobruk would be awesome to see as well.

  • @VonMed
    @VonMed 8 месяцев назад +10

    Historical videos shouldn’t be age restricted youtube

  • @irish7460
    @irish7460 8 месяцев назад +16

    625 Australian soldiers died in that campaign. 150 Papuans. And a whopping 10,000 Japanese soldiers.

    • @jayo3074
      @jayo3074 3 месяца назад +5

      I highly doubt that

    • @MaoriMan76
      @MaoriMan76 Месяц назад

      Aussies gave the Japs their first real defeat of the war... After this battle it was all backwards going for the Japs

    • @davidhall2327
      @davidhall2327 Месяц назад

      The Japanese certainly wasted a lot of manpower due to their methods.​@@jayo3074

    • @warrenklein7817
      @warrenklein7817 Месяц назад +2

      Australia 🇦🇺 fought in New Guinea until 15 August 1945, with 7,000 kia, USA 🇺🇸 5,000 kia, mostly in 1943. Japanese over 200,000 dead out of nearly 1 million troops, many from tropical disease and General MacArthur's tactics to leap frog up the north coast, cutting off substantial forces without supplies and fighting the minority. MacArthur is criticised by some, but he was effective.

    • @seanlander9321
      @seanlander9321 Месяц назад +1

      Japan committed 600000 troops to the New Guinea campaign. 220000 died, 8000 Australians and 7000 Americans died. Where anyone gets the idea that the Japanese were in any way superior fighters baffles me.

  • @54032Zepol
    @54032Zepol 9 месяцев назад +13

    Wow very cool Australia! Keep up the great work

  • @johnmcpherson1713
    @johnmcpherson1713 2 месяца назад +3

    This woulf make a great movie.

    • @xe2594
      @xe2594 Месяц назад +1

      Multiple movies covering such events.

    • @Daeyel
      @Daeyel Месяц назад

      A movie would not do it justice. Needs a 10 part miniseries.

  • @merrylmarsh9037
    @merrylmarsh9037 Месяц назад

    Thank you for a concise depiction of this campaign.
    Have always wanted to know the details and this depiction was so specific.
    My dad and uncle were at Milne Vay.
    Will now look for those battle🇦🇺 details.
    Many thanks.

  • @Skipper.17
    @Skipper.17 4 месяца назад +4

    Only 1 V.C awarded. That’s sad.

  • @Garshock1
    @Garshock1 8 месяцев назад +3

    Great video!

  • @nomadmarauder-dw9re
    @nomadmarauder-dw9re 5 месяцев назад +3

    Nice to mention Guadalcanal. IJA troops meant to reinforce New Guinea were sent there instead.

  • @AnthonyTolhurst-dw1nc
    @AnthonyTolhurst-dw1nc Месяц назад +1

    John Tolhurst, my grandfather, was seriously wounded on the Kokoda campaign.

    • @Daeyel
      @Daeyel Месяц назад

      What unit?

  • @isaacbonner-sl7qe
    @isaacbonner-sl7qe 9 месяцев назад +4

    Will there be Episode 4

  • @MaoriMan76
    @MaoriMan76 Месяц назад +1

    Lest we forget

  • @seanmcleay6308
    @seanmcleay6308 2 месяца назад +1

    was the 52nd in the engagement ? Or we don't mention them......

  • @rossellis9259
    @rossellis9259 Месяц назад

    Why did the name Kokoda Trail change to Kokoda Track. Just so I can tell my deceased father who fought in Wewak.

  • @corvanphoenix
    @corvanphoenix Месяц назад +1

    Hypohysterical History has a great, detailed series of documentaries of this part of the war. You owe it to yourself to check it out.

    • @anthonyeaton5153
      @anthonyeaton5153 Месяц назад

      I think it should be HypErhistorical History.

  • @XxBloggs
    @XxBloggs 8 месяцев назад +6

    Important history… but ignoring the fact that the 53rd Battalion refused to fight at Isurava.

    • @captainsleeman9787
      @captainsleeman9787 Месяц назад

      Yes, poor leadership in terrible circumstances and they paid a terrible price for that during the Buna Gona campaign when they sought to redeem themselves.

    • @Daeyel
      @Daeyel Месяц назад +2

      The 53rd is not to blame. Bad leadership, nd many members were literally shanghaied into the battalion at Sydney docks. Also denied their promised leave before embarking. The 53rd was dealt a really bad hand by their leaders. Refusing to fight led to the 39th's mistake that cleared the log firing pits.

  • @seanlander9321
    @seanlander9321 Месяц назад

    When the Americans tried the same feat they proved themselves utterly useless, being unfit for combat without firing a shot or even seeing a Japanese. Their extraordinary lack of hygiene and throwing away their mosquito nets meant that they went down like flies, leaving yet more of the fighting to the Australians.

  • @peterwarner5920
    @peterwarner5920 Месяц назад

    Kokoda trail is wrong. My dad who was there, said it was always the TRACK. Why can't we be Australian.

  • @Golden-dog88
    @Golden-dog88 Месяц назад +1

    the Australian coastline was overwhelmed by europians long before japan tried to

  • @kempowarrior1954
    @kempowarrior1954 Месяц назад

    Seems to be a fad now for football teams, politicians and whatever to test themselves by trekking along the trail/track. Personally, I'm against it.
    Next it'll be climbing up the cliffs at Gallipoli.

  • @fredericpons7837
    @fredericpons7837 Месяц назад

    The Kokoda has never been "untold". Are you living in this world or you discover history?

    • @Daeyel
      @Daeyel Месяц назад

      Americans are, to a man, completely unaware of the campaign and it's significance, because few, if any Americans fought on it. The Beachheads gets more attention due to American units fighting there.