Fought across the vast wilderness of the Owen Stanley Mountains, The Kokdoa Track Campaign was Japan's final, great attempt to capture Port Moresby, the last major allied base north of Australia. Led by Major General Horii, the 10,000 strong elite South Seas Force forged a path through the mountains in the face of dogged and determined resistance from the outnumbered Australian defenders. Lured into a trap by the Australian generals, by the time the Japanese men could see the search lights at Port Moresby, they were starving. In an epic counteroffensive, the Australians would recapture Kokoda, and decisively defeat Horii in one final encounter at Oivi-Gorari. Isurava, Ioribaiwa, Eora Creek, Templeton's Crossing and Oivi; battles have been etched into the annals of Australian military history, are undoubtedly actions that, taken together, constitute one of the greatest campaigns ever fought by the Australian army.
0:00 The Battle of the Coral Sea
5:02 Japanese Plans for a Land Attack on Port Moresby
15:08 The Fearsome Owen Stanly Mountains
16:18 Total War: Australia's Strategic Environment in 1942
26:24 The Battle of Kokoda and the Arrival of the South Seas Detatchment
29:48 Fought on the Backs of the Men of Papua
31:42 The Battle of Isurava
39:51 Unlikey Heroes: the 39th Battalion
41:26 Hell and High Ground: The Withdrawal to Ioribaiwa
46:59 MacArthur and the Ausrtalian Generals
52:33 The Battle of Iorwibaiwa
58:33 MacArthur, Curtin and a Command Crisis in New Guinea
1:00:54 Starvation
1:03:44 The Australian Counteroffensive
1:07:27 The 2nd Battle of Eora Creek - Templeton's Crossing
1:15:28 The Australian Flag at Kokoda
1:18:46 The Battle of OIvi - Gorari
1:23:49 Australian Victory in the Mountains
