Kokoda - the Counterattack

Genre:.....................WWII Documentary
Language:.................English - No Subs
Picture:...................Colour/B&W
Runtime:..................56Mins
Size:........................439Mb

The series follows in the footsteps of Australia's ill-equipped and poorly trained
conscripts, the 'chocolate soldiers' and the battled hardened troops of the Australian Imperial Forces, walking the treacherous 98-kilometre jungle trail from Port Moresby to Kokoda, then on to the blood-stained battlegrounds of Gona, Buna and Sanananda.The documentary includes interviews with Australian and Japanese veterans and historians, letters to loved ones, previously unpublished documents, archival footage, footage from the track and dramatisations in Australia and Papua New Guinea. The diaries of embedded war correspondents Okada Seizo and Chester Wilmot paint an intimate portrait of how soldiers on both sides felt during the battles.