Milne Bay Battle 1942

The first time the Japanese were stopped in World War 2... was 7th of September 1942...(Before Gaudacanal fight was finished)...they retreated then back to Rabaul after heavy fighting with the Aussies in the muddy swamp at Milne Bay, New Guinea... http://www.scullywag.com/kokoda1942stoush/ Milne Bay Battle 1942... In the mud of east New Guinea by the shores of Milne Bay.. The Yanks had laid an airstrip made of mesh or so they say... It was 1942 the Japanese would land... Never beaten till this point, unbeatable so grand... 2 Squadrons of Yank Kittyhawk's all covered in the mud... Flown by game Australians who spilled the Nippon blood... Six 50 cal machine guns on the Kitty they did sit... Bullets wobbled down the barrels, sank the barges just a bit... Fighter Ace our Truscott he'd often lead the charge..Bluey... He'd barely left the airstrip, wheels up, strafe a barge... Barges full of soldiers packed in like sardines.... And on this beach the slaughter of the Japanese Marines... The rain came down in torrents never dry, how would you be.... Aussie soldier were in battle in mud up to their knees... So driven from this swamp were the awful Japanese... By the 7th of September, what weren't dead were glad to flee... Don Johnson