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Kokoda: Why Was Australia So Unprepared For The Pacific War? (Part 1)
Why was Australia so unprepared for war in the Pacific? How did the Great Depression shape the men who would fight on the Kokoda Track? Why did the volunteers of the Second AIF call the militia 'choccos'?
Join Al Murray and James Holland for part 1 of Kokoda, a series on the 1942 campaign in Papua. Before a shot is fired on the Track, they set the scene: the mountains and clans of Papua, the Australia of the 1920s and 30s, the disarmament and Singapore strategy that left it exposed, and the two armies, volunteers and militia, who would have to fight side by side.
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