Brave 400 Aussie boys
Blog Posted:7/14/2011 8:59:00 PM
BRAVE 400 BOYS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aq9GUOwNF1c
400 boys to stop the Jap, yes the 39th Battalion......
Some of these kids didn't even shave ...
Just a hundred kids in action...
Insidious Jap he crept about ...
Encircled us where we fought...
Kids on their bellys they wriggled out ...
When the Jap had em penned and caught...
Thousands of Jap's now came in waves...
.303 did cause some slaughter...
Surrounded again, young men our braves...
Copped mountain gun and mortar...
So we'd pull back to higher ground...
We only had our threeo ......(.303 rifle)
With timber splintered and surrounded...
It was time to go go go...
Many died and many tried...
To stem the enemy flow...
Surrounded again, retreat ,retire...
If death would let em go...
Ten thousand Japanese still came...
A swarming over the mountain..
Boys hobbled back wounded the lame...
Hot lead did the accounting...
Second 14 Battalion came with the 16th and 27th....
Fought like hell ...over run as well...
yellow peril seemed so malevolent...
Don Johnson
The Brave 400.....
In defence of Australia we had initially only 400 boys 15 to 18 years of age, some had put their age up to be there, they had old first War Veteran officers used to Gallapoli and fighting trench warfare in France. When these brave men died we were being pressured by overwhelming odds,
Up to 13,000 veteran available Japanese troops were encircling each of the battalions sent to stop them . First the boys of the 39th Milita about 400 total then of boys too young to be in the AIF for Hitlers war. Reinforced later by 3 Battalions stretched out among the mountains, the 2/14th 2/16th and 2/27th who also fought delaying actions against overwhelming odds ...A TOTAL OF LESS THAN 3,000 AUSSIES TO TAKE ON 13,000.Japanese...IMPOSSIBLE PERHAPS...........All because Churchill was refusing P.M. John Curtin's demand in 1942 to have his elite troops sent home from the Middle East to defend Australia. During the 28th Sep. 1942 Iorabiawa fight 3 fresh Battalions of the 25th Brigade A.I.F.Aussies less than 3,000 blooded soldiers put the Japanese to flight back over the Kokoda Track, and reinforced, drove them back across the island to their reinforced bunkers on the beach at Gona and Buna, where they were slaughtered during 1943.....Don Johnson
This Kokoda fight happened simultaneously with (Our first win over the Japanese by 7th of September 1942 Milne Bay) Milne bay fight And the grim Guadcanal battle with the American forces versus the Japanese....
So there we were in 1942, facing Japanese in New Guinea with
children 15 and a bit older. General Macarthur our new Army Commander was bellowing complaining 2000 miles south of the New Guinea fight, because out 400 boys couldn't stop 13,000 Japanese blooded troops in those high mountains. Talk about the 300 Spartans hey:)