4.35 "Into the Green Hell" The New Guinea Campaign part 1

Empire, Republic and Shadow Wars

Shawn Warswick

Education, History, Self-improvement

4.4 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail Guess who's back? Yep. We have a new WWII episode. I wasn't sure this day would arrive, but it has. In this episode we begin a four part look at one of the forgotten aspects of WWII in the Pacific. Support the show

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0:00.0	July 15, 1942.
0:03.2	Dear Mum, arrived in Port Moresby yesterday.
0:06.1	The heat hits you like walk in into a furnace.
0:08.7	Can't see 10 feet through this green maze they call it jungle.
0:12.3	The boys are trying to keep their spirits up, but I won't lie.
0:15.2	We're all scared.
0:16.5	None of us signed up expecting this.
0:20.3	July 12, 1942.
0:22.6	Honorable Father, we have landed at Golnh.
0:25.8	The jungle here is unlike our training in Manchuria.
0:28.9	It is a living wall that seems to breathe.
0:31.3	But our spirits remain high.
0:33.1	The Australians are soft city boys who have never faced the emperor's soldiers.
0:36.9	We will be in Port Moresby within two weeks.
0:51.5	By the end of 1942, these young men would meet in battle on a muddy track that would change the course of the Pacific War.
0:58.0	This is the American History podcast, Season 4, Episode 35.
1:03.0	I'm your host, Sean Worswick, and welcome to Into the Green Hell, the first of four episodes on the new Guinea campaign.
1:11.7	This is Tokyo Road.
1:14.5	Are you listening?
1:16.6	All you find voice in your comfortable foxhole?
1:21.5	Listen to close.
1:22.2	The The New Guinea campaign doesn't get the attention of Guadalcanal or Iwo Jima, but it should.
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