Japanese attempt to take Port Moresby in New Guinea from the interior by advance following Kokoda Track after failure of naval attack in the Coral Sea.
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| July 21, 1942: |
In New Guinea - General Horii´s 18th Army lands at Gona, forestalling planned Allied landings. |
| July 22, 1942: |
In New Guinea - The Japanese forces under General Horii advance along the Kokoda Trail from Buna. The small Australian garrison at Kokoda prepares its defense. |
| July 23, 1942: |
In New Guinea - Advancing up the Kokado Trail, the Japanese 17th Army engaged the Australian defenders near Wosida. |
| July 29, 1942: |
In New Guinea - Kokoda falls to the reinforced Japanese troops. Aid which might have helped the Australians stave off the Japanese advance turns back when the planes carrying supplies are told incorrectly that the airfield is in already Japanese hands. At sea, near Gona, American A-24 Banshee dive bombers (ground variant of the SBD Dauntless aircraft) attack a Japanese supply convoy from Lae to Buna. They manage to damage the cargo ship Kotoku Maru and turn the convoy back, however, six of the seven bombers are shot down by Japanese Zeros and anti-aircraft fire, including the leading aircraft of Major Floyd "Buck" Rogers. |
| August 11, 1942: |
In New Guinea - Japanese forces take Deniki on the Kokoda Trail from the Australians. The Australian troops are forced to retreat for five miles towards Templeton´s Crossing near the top of the trail. |
| August 16, 1942: |
In New Guinea - More Japanese reinforcements arrive for the fighting against the Australians on the Kokoda Trail near Buna. |
| August 25, 1942: |
In New Guinea - Japanese attack on Milne Bay begins. Their landings are fiercely resisted by the Australian and American garrison. In other fighting near the Kokoda Trail, the Japanese gain some ground near Isurava. |
| September 2, 1942: |
In New Guinea - At Buna, 1000 more Japanese reinforcements land from Rabaul land. |
| September 8, 1942: |
In New Guinea - Japanese advances force the Australians back over the Owen Stanley Range. Their position near Efogi is abandoned. |
| September 11, 1942: |
In New Guinea - The Japanese are halted in Owen Stanley Range at Ioribaiwa. |
| September 14, 1942: |
In the Solomon Islands - At Guadalcanal, General Kawaguchi´s troops suffer 1200 casualties in their initial assault. The attacks trail off and stop. |
| September 16, 1942: |
In New Guinea - Allied prospects are brighter as they establish local air superiority over Ioribaiwa. This halts the Japanese advance. American reinforcements brought into Port Moresby to join the Australians mean that an effective offense can now be planned. |
| September 27, 1942: |
In New Guinea - The Australian offensives forces the withdrawal of Japanese troops back down the Kokoda Trail. |
| October 1, 1942: |
From Australia, New Guinea - General MacArthur issues orders for the coordinated allied advances in New Guinea. US forces are to take the Kapa Kapa Trail running parallel to the Kokada Trail in an effort to entrap the Japanese troops between the two allied forces, closing their retreat at the Kumusi River. Landings are also to be made on the northern coast between Milne Bay and Cape Nelson. Wanigela is a focus for a portion of the landings. Australian troops begin to move forward on the Kokada Trail. |
| October 4, 1942: |
In New Guinea - The Australians continue advancing along the Kokado Trail. They take Efogi and continue advancing to Aola and Moyola. |
| October 6, 1942: |
In New Guinea - American troops begin implementation of General MacArthur´s offensive to cut off the retreat of the Japanese forces withdrawing in the face of Australian attacks. Elements of the US 32nd Division begin to move down the Kapa Kapa Trail. They are 25 miles southwest of the Kokoda Trail which the Japanese are using as an escape route. The terrain is very difficult. |
| October 14, 1942: |
In New Guinea - The Australians and Japanese engage heavily on the Kokado Trail at Templeton´s Crossing. |
| October 17, 1942: |
In New Guinea - The Australian 16th Brigade has relieved the 25th Brigade at the head of the advance along the Kokoda Trail. Fierce Japanese resistance holds up the continuing advance at Eora Creek. A regiment of the US 32nd Division is airlifted from Port Moresby to Wanigela on the north coast. |
| October 18, 1942: |
From Washington - Admiral Halsey is appointed chief of the Pacific Command Area, replacing Admiral Ghormley. |
| October 18, 1942: |
In New Guinea - American forces sent on a parallel trail to help the Australians cut off Japanese retreats down the Kokoda Trail, finally begin to reach Pongani. The trip has proved to be so difficult that the soldiers are in no condition to fight. In addition, the transport of troops by air from Port Moresby to the northern coast has made the land trip unnecessary. |
| October 21, 1942: |
In New Guinea - The Australian troops fighting on Kokoda Trail advance to the main Japanese positions in Eora. General MacArthur orders them to speed up their advance. |
| October 30, 1942: |
In New Guinea - The Australian advance reaches Alola, about 10 miles south of Kokoda. One of the brigades is sent directly toward Kokoda, while the second is sent on a more easterly route. |
| November 5, 1942: |
In New Guinea - The Australians attack Oivi. The Japanese decided to fight a rear guard action here to enable the rest of their forces to retire across the Kumusi River. |
| November 15, 1942: |
In New Guinea - The construction of rudimentary bridges on the Kusumi River allows an Australian advance to take Wairopi and Ilimow. At Port Moresby, the 30-Mile Drome Airport is being renamed Rogers Airfield to honor the memory of Major Floyd "Buck" Rogers, who died in a bomber on July 29 during an attack on a convoy near Gona. |
| December 7, 1942: |
In New Guinea - The Japanese counterattacks threaten the American positions by Buna. The Americans ultimately hold. During the raid on the Japanese air base Buna by American Aircobra fighters, George Welch shot down two Aichi D3A dive bombers and one A6M2 Zero fighter. He thus becomes one of only two American pilots of inefficient Airacobras, who achieved three victories in one flight. He succeeds in the first anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, during which Welch distinguished himself as one of the few fighters that took off and shot down Japanese planes that day. |
| December 31, 1942: |
New Guinea - George Strock, a Correspondent for Life magazine, photographs the bodies of dead soldiers after the battle. There are so many bodies that the place becomes called "Maggot Beach". One of the images will be, authorized by the personal permission of President Roosevelt, the first photograph published in the United States during World War II to show American soldiers dead on the battlefield. |
| January 12, 1943: |
In New Guinea - Australian infantry and tanks attack Japanese positions north and west of Gona. |
| January 13, 1943: |
In New Guinea - General Eichelberger, an American, is given overall command of the fighting Allied troops. |
| January 28, 1943: |
In New Guinea - The Japanese unsuccessfully attack a detachment of the Australian 3rd Division at Wau. |
| January 31, 1943: |
New Guinea - American and Australian forces stop a Japanese advance in the Battle of Wau. The Japanese attempt to destroy this remote Allied base in the New Guinean hinterland by land advance from Salamaua is wrecked by massive airlift of reinforcements. |
| March 4, 1943: |
In United States - The 15th Academy Awards are held in Los Angeles. An Oscar for the best documentary film, as the first Australian film, gets the Australian documentary Kokoda Front Line! of war cameraman Damien Parer, who will later be killed by Japanese fire in the Battle of Peleliu. An American film Wake Island gains the nomination for the Outstanding Motion Picture. |
| June 30, 1943: |
In New Guinea - Part of the American units from the advanced bases of Mageri and Morobe known as MacKechnie Force including the commander (Archibald Ross MacKechnie) lands in Nassau Bay, not far south of the town of Salamaua, in strong surf. Although the troops of the first and second landing waves manage to get ashore thanks to the guidance of the Australian diversionary Australians who infiltrated jungle to reach the beach, all their boats are lost. The third wave turns back without landing, and the Japanese launch counterattacks to the bridgehead. |
| July 3, 1943: |
In New Guinea - Australian forces, advancing from Wau, are heavily engaged by Japanese forces around Mubo. During the day, the Australians link up with the Americans from the Nassau Bay landing force in the Bitoi River region. |
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