Bismark Sea 1943
BISMARK SEA 1943
It was early nineteen forty three, Kokoda fight was over,
Thirteen thousand Japanese were dead amongst the clover,
New Guinea still had fifty thousand more, in wait,
To kill a few Australians, Yanks were helping us old mate.
Then across the Bismark sea, came the troopships eight,
With 8 destroyer’s coming too, 5 thousand soldiers fate,
Aussie Catalina watched at 90 miles an hour,
Reinforcements coming for the Japanese,
Still thought they had the power.
U.S. B17s dropped from twenty thousand feet,
The bomb loads that they carried,
Aussie Beaufighters went in at mast height ,
Sinking ships and deathly harried,
8 troop ships were sunk,
and 4 of the Destroyers,
Japanese fought to the death in New Guinea,
Hand to hand there was no quarter,
10 machine guns firing forward,
Beaufighter, caused a slaughter,
Ships n boats an all that floats,
Were killed there in the water.
Don Johnson
Copyright © Don Johnson | Year Posted 2012
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