Kokoda Track Heroes - WW2

actually it's milne bay that was the first defeat of the japanese and then it was kokoda

rommel was mongrel who should get no respect

i have photos of my grand father who served in tobruk and new guinea and im happy to pass on a copy (9th division) i have 2 photos one being his army photo and one of him and his mate taken in 1942 on derna rd also if you are interested i have made a digital copy of a hard to find map of tobruk wich my grand father has had for many years i can have it printed for you on canvas if you like at your cost (it cost me $100 to have it duplicated)

F**k rommel

WOW

you have taken rommels comment out of context What he actually said was "give me two australian divisions,i could not control more, and i will conquer the world for you

gotta love those true words from rommel.

aussie soldiers prove themselves again and again... outnumbered and ill-equiped they still come out on top.. our pride and passion for our country is all the ammunition we need.. and as the president of the RSL said "we do not condone war nor do we encourage it..but let it be said that any enemy should think twice about taking on the sons of anzac"

Wow, very inspirational. I am walking the track in May, and videos like this really help motivate me to push through the training. In reality it is absolutley nothing in comparison to what the soldiers went through. (But it still hurts - and those mountains look bloody high!)

400 untrained Miltia troops, average age 19 ill equipped, pitted against 4000+, the cream of the Jap Army. A heroic fighting withdrawl back along the Track to Ioribaiwa Ridge where they were ordered to dig in and fight to the death or until relieved by the AIF scrambling up the Track from Port Morseby to reach them. Churchill had tried to counterman Curtin's orders for AIF to be returned to defend Australia. Australian victories at Kokoda and Milne Bay were first defeats of the Jap. Army in WW2.

the defeat of the Japanese at kokoda was the first defeat of the Japanese army, this is from c grade Australian troops. Tobruk is important from the prospective of Rommels opinion, but kokoda is a more sacred battle.

If anyone has any photographs of Australians that served at Tobruk I would include them in a video with the song. Acknowledgments would be included with the video and the video would not be for sale. (Comment by the author of the song).

My next video project will be on Australians at Tobruk.

Upon Being asked why he was being pushed back by a "Commonwealth" division at El Alamein, Rommel replied, "it is not a Commonwealth division, it is an Australian Division, why, give me 2 Australian Divisions and i will conquer the world for you!"

My dad was at Tobruk. There is no more important battle to Australia then Kokoda it was the battle for Australia. You cannot even compare the two battles. The divisions that fought in the middle east were the cream of Australian manhood, the soldiers at Kokoda were second rate chocolate soldiers.