Campaign
Kokoda Track campaign
21 Jul 1942 – 16 Nov 1942 · Kokoda Track, Papua
From 21 July to 16 November 1942 Australian and Papuan forces fought Japanese troops, chiefly Major General Tomitarō Horii's South Seas Detachment, along the Kokoda Track over the Owen Stanley Range in the Territory of Papua. The article's infobox gives Allied strength of about 30,000 against 13,500 Japanese and an Allied victory. Allied casualties are given as 625 killed, 1,055 wounded and over 4,000 sick; Japanese about 2,050, or roughly 4,500 including sick (the presentation is ambiguous).
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