Kokoda (75 page)

133
Bill Edgar,
Warrior of Kokoda
, p. 130.

H
OLDING
O
N

134
Jungle Trail. An Official Publication. A Story of the Australian Soldier in New Guinea
, Brochure Number Two, The Australian Army at War, published by the Australian Commonwealth Military Forces, 1943, pp.3-5.

135
Dudley McCarthy,
Australia in the War of 1939–45
, p. 147.

136
An account of this meeting is contained in David Horner,
Blamey
, p. 318.

137
A good account of this retreat is in Raymond Paull,
Retreat From Kokoda
, pp.77–82.

138
Information on Tsukamoto can be found in Dudley McCarthy,
Australia in the War of 1939–45
, p. 144 and Peter Brune,
Those Ragged Bloody Heroes
, pp. 72–73.

139
Australian War Memorial, Allied Translator and Interpreter Section, 12 October 1942, Captured Documents Nos 32–35.

140
Victor Austin,
To Kokoda and Beyond
, p. 77.

141
David Horner,
Blamey
, p. 319.

142
Victor Austin,
To Kokoda and Beyond
, p. 125.

143
This is material drawn from an extensive interview conducted with Lawrie ‘Smoky’ Howson, on 5 November 1988, by Harry Martin and Milissa Byrne, for the Australian War Memorial.

144
Victor Austin,
To Kokoda and Beyond
, p. 129.

145
William Manchester,
American Caesar
, p. 317.

146
Osmar White,
Green Armour
, p. 152.

147
Neil McDonald,
War Cameraman
, p. 144.

148
This letter published in Bill Edgar,
Warrior of Kokoda
, pp. 166–7.

149
Osmar White,
Green Armour
, p. 154.

150
ibid.

151
Australian War Memorial, Allied Translator and Interpreter Section, 12 October 1942, Captured Documents Nos 32–35.

A W
EARY
W
AY TO GO
…

152
Peter Brune,
Those Ragged Bloody Heroes
, p.77.

153
ibid, p. 88.

154
Peter Brune,
We Band of Brothers,
p.134.

155
Drawn from an article written by Ralph Honner, ‘This is the 39th’, in
The Bulletin
, 3 August 1955.

156
Ralph Honner recalls his feelings on this subject at some length in
The Kokoda Interviews
, a collection of interviews conducted for the Australian Army.

157
Ralph Honner, ‘This is the 39th’, in
The Bulletin
, 3 August 1955.

158
ibid.

159
Information on Japanese desire for Australian boots drawn from Chester Wilmot report contained on p.3 Disc no. CW 300. Japanese Mastery of Movement. Side B, 6.9.42, from the Australian War Memorial.

160
Australian War Memorial, Allied Translator and Interpreter Section, 12 October 1942, Captured Documents Nos 32–35.

161
This letter written by Sir Sydney F Rowell to Damien Parer’s wife, Marie, on 26 April 1964.

162
‘Tidings from the South Seas,’ Australian War Memorial, Captured Documents Nos 32–35, pp. 15–16.

163
As recorded in the Sydney
Daily Mirror
, 13 April 1952.

164
Paull,
Retreat from Kokoda
, p.109.

165
Ralph Honner, ‘This is the 39th’,
The Bulletin
, 3 August 1955.

166
Osmar White,
Green Armour
, p. 162.

T
HE
B
ATTLE OF
I
SURAVA

167
Peter Brune,
We Band of Brothers
, p.134.

168
Ralph Honner, ‘This is the 39th’,
The Bulletin
, 3 August 1955.

169
Peter Brune,
We Band of Brothers
, p. 146.

170
Ralph Honner, ‘This is the 39th’,
The Bulletin
, 3 August 1955.

171
Tony Stephens, ‘Held at Bay’,
Sydney Morning Herald
, 3 August 2002.

172
Dudley McCarthy,
Australia in the War of 1939–45
, p. 201.

173
A copy of this can be seen on the Australian War Memorial website, AWM exdoc 40.

174
Raymond Paull,
Retreat From Kokoda
, p. 125.

175
Peter Brune,
Those Ragged Bloody Heroes
, pp.98-99.

176
Victor Austin,
To Kokoda and Beyond
, p. 156.

177
A full account of the whole episode with Lieutenant Sword’s platoon can be found on p. 148 of Peter Brune,
We Band of Brothers.

178
Accounts of what the Japanese called out can be found on p.28 of
The Jap was Thrashed: Milne Bay, Owen Stanleys, Buna, Gona and Sananda 1942–43
, The Australian Army at War series, published by The Director General of Public Relations Under the Authority of General Sir Thomas Blamey. Also p. 5 of Chester Wilmot’s report 23 September 1942 for
ABC Weekly
, entitled ‘Japs are Strange Mixture of Primitive and Modern’.

179
Chester Wilmot, ‘Japanese Jungle Tactics’,
ABC Weekly
, 17 September 1942.

180
Ralph Honner, ‘This is the 39th’,
The Bulletin
, 3 August 1955.

181
Victor Austin,
To Kokoda and Beyond
, p. 155.

182
As reported by Raymond Paull,
Retreat From Kokoda
, p. 90. It was subsequently made more famous when Peter Brune used it as the title for his book
Those Ragged Bloody Heroes
.

183
Ralph Honner, ‘This is the 39th’,
The Bulletin,
3 August 1955.

184
Victor Austin,
To Kokoda and Beyond
, p. 146.

185
Ralph Honner, ‘This is the 39th’,
The Bulletin
, 3 August 1955.

186
ibid.

187
Osmar White,
Green Armour
, p.176.

188
Victor Austin,
To Kokoda and Beyond
, p. 156.

189
Bill Edgar,
Warrior of Kokoda
, p. 143.

190
Patrick Lindsay,
The Spirit of Kokoda
Hardie Grant Books, Melbourne, 2002, p. 61.

G
UMPTION
, G
UTS AND
G
LORY

191
Reminising to Patrick Lindsay for the Patrick Lindsay and George Friend film released in 1992,
The Bloody Track
.

192
Sydney Rowell,
Full Circle
, p. 116.

193
Chester Wilmot,
Kokoda Road
, Disc No. C.W.311.p. 3 (No date visible.)

194
Steven Bullard, ‘The Japanese Medical System in the Campaigns in Papua (Kokoda and Buna) in 1942 and Early 1943’
,
Paper delivered at the 5th Symposium, The Pacific War in Papua New Guinea, Perceptions and Realities, Australian National University, 7–8 August 2003, p. 4.

195
Ralph Honner, ‘This is the 39th’,
The Bulletin
, 3 August 1955.

196
Victor Austin,
To Kokoda and Beyond
, p. 157.

197
An account of the Wilmot allegation about Blamey’s cinema contract can be sourced to an article written by Chris Masters,
Sydney Morning Herald
, 14 August 1995.

198
Ralph Honner, ‘This is the 39th’,
The Bulletin,
3 August 1955.

199
Osmar White,
Green Armour
, p.164.

200
Neil McDonald, ‘Reporting the Papuan Campaign’,
Quadrant
, November 2002, Volume XLVI, No. 391, Number 11.

201
Chester Wilmot,
Carrier Line
, Recorded for ABC on 20 October 1942, p. 5.

202
From transcript of Chester Wilmot broadcast, ‘And our Troops Were Forced to Withdraw’, DISC No. 311 CW Side B, 11 September 1942.

203
Dianne McInnes,
A Tribute to the Brave
, p. 21.

204
This information drawn from Steven Bullard, ‘The Japanese Medical System in the Campaigns in Papua (Kokoda and Buna) in 1942 and Early 1943’
,
Paper delivered at the 5th Symposium, The Pacific War in Papua New Guinea, Perceptions and Realities, Australian National University, 7–8 August 2003, p. 4.

205
Chester Wilmot,
Kokoda Road
, Disc No. C.W.311.p. 3 (No date visible.)

206
Neil McDonald, ‘Reporting the Papuan Campaign’,
Quadrant
, November 2002, Volume XLVI, No. 391, Number 11.

207
ibid.

208
Osmar White,
Green Armour
, p. 168.

F
ALLING
B
ACK

209
Peter Brune,
A Bastard of a Place
, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 2003, p.172.

210
Chester Wilmot,
Carrier Line
, Recorded for ABC on 20 October 1942, p. 5.

211
This account of Osmar White’s walk towards Eora Creek can be found in
Green Armour
, pp.169ff.

212
Daniel Oakman,
Wartime
, Official Magazine of the Australian War Memorial, No. 23, p. 57.

213
Osmar White,
Green Armour
, p. 170.

214
This method is detailed on p. 156 of an article by Gwynedd Hunter-Payne entitled ‘From the Other Side: The Patient Experience of Outpost Medicine In New Guinea During WWII’,
‘Outpost Medicine’ Australasian Studies of the History of Medicine
, Third National Conference of the Australian Society of the History of Medicine, Hobart, February, 1993.

215
The Medical Journal of Australia
, 14 October 1944, p. 405.

216
Mention of the Metson saga is made in
The Jap was Thrashed: Milne Bay, Owen Stanleys, Buna, Gona and Sananda 1942–43
, The Australian Army at War series, published by The Director General of Public Relations Under the Authority of General Sir Thomas Blamey, p.48.

217
This account drawn from Osmar White,
Green Armour
, p. 173.