Created by Tom Horn on 19 Aug 2010, Last Update on 19 Aug 2010

Milne Bay - 25 Aug 1942

"Australian troops had, at Milne Bay in New Guinea, inflicted on the Japanese their first undoubted defeat on land. If the Australians, in conditions very like ours, had done it, so could we." British Field Marshal Sir William Slim

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Tags : Australia,Japan,United States,Land,Pacific,Combat

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