Green Hell-New Guinea from Port Moresby to Buna-Gona with Jon Parshall

The Unauthorized History of the Pacific War

Captain William Toti, USN

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🗓️ 21 March 2023

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

This week Seth, Bill and Jon Parshall discuss the opening moves in the campaign for New Guinea. The trio breaks down the fighting along the Kokoda Track, the unbelievable human suffering in the Owen Stanleys and jungle and conclude with the fighting in Buna, Gona and Sanananda.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 204 of the unauthorized history of the Pacific War podcast.
0:18.6	My name is Seth Peridon, historian, deputy director of the Mississippi Armed Forces Museum on forces museum here cam shelby with me as always is my esteemed co-host retired
0:25.3	navy captain bill toady former skipper of the fast attack submarine u s indianapolis
0:29.7	common horror submarine squad and three in pearl harbor many other assignments how are you this
0:33.5	morning bill i feel like we're going to go feet dry to use the name expression today, Seth.
0:39.6	Indeed, we are.
0:40.7	And as you can probably see, we have our return guest and good friend historian John Parshall.
0:47.1	How are you this morning, John?
0:48.7	I am absolutely great.
0:50.7	Fantastic, fantastic.
0:51.6	We've got some interesting stuff to talk about today. The term forgotten theater, forgotten battle, forgotten front, what have you, is an oft-utilized moniker for a topic of the war that doesn't get the proper attention it deserves. Usually that forgotten title is applied by someone who thinks that the story of the fumigation and bath companies working ashore on Green Island in 1946 is a forgotten front of the war and also important, but I digress.
1:17.6	When it comes to the Pacific Theater, one can tag a lot of places as forgotten, quite frankly, most of the places.
1:23.6	However, one stands out among the rest when it comes to events that are often overshadowed by others that occurred simultaneously or have taken on greater historical importance.
1:32.6	At Forgotten Campaign is one that consumed the lives of about 11,000 allied soldiers, 7,000 plus Australians and 4,684 Americans, as well as an astonishing, get ready for this,
1:46.0	202,000 Japanese.
1:50.0	That places New Guinea.
1:52.0	The New Guinea campaign like Guadalcanal and later the Philippines was not a one-and-done operation.
1:58.0	Fighting in and around New Guinea occurred from 1942 until the end of the war in
2:01.9	1945. Campaign began on January 23rd, 1942 when the Japanese invaded Papua and New Guinea,
2:08.5	and by March of that year had advanced mercilessly over Western New Guinea and were threatening
2:12.3	the area around Port Moresby. Japanese were obsessed with the capture of Moresby for the majority
2:17.2	of the year
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