Un-named GUEST - (pretending to be a non-muso about 13 years old, or perhpas younger) - nice try with harvesting addresses from Spam. :-)

Why were they fightingthere - was explained earlier in thé thread - you must be illiterate if you couldnt read that - we're not going to do your homework for you!

Try searching encyclopedias (not US ones!) - Aussies were fighting there to stop the Japanese taking Papua/New Guinea to jump off for Australia.

Some mad Aussie Choco Soldier picked up a Bren gun & charged them, which was the turning point...

We had at home in the 1950's & 60's, the remnant of a bottle of "Kokoda"mossie repellant - smelt like 900 proof whiskey with some strong herbal overtones - evaporated rather quickly too... :-)

Robin