Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Photographs
- Maps
- Tables
- Key to military symbols
- Acknowledgements
- Note on the text
- Glossary
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 Strategy
- Chapter 3 Military intelligence
- Chapter 4 The Nankai Shitai
- Chapter 5 From the landing to Deniki
- Chapter 6 Isurava
- Chapter 7 Guadalcanal and Milne Bay
- Chapter 8 The Japanese build-up
- Chapter 9 First Eora–Templeton’s
- Chapter 10 Efogi
- Chapter 11 Ioribaiwa
- Chapter 12 Japanese Artillery
- Chapter 13 Malaria and dysentery
- Chapter 14 The Japanese supply crisis
- Chapter 15 Second Eora–Templeton’s
- Chapter 16 Oivi–Gorari
- Chapter 17 The war in the air
- Chapter 18 Conclusion
- Note on sources
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 11 - Ioribaiwa
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Photographs
- Maps
- Tables
- Key to military symbols
- Acknowledgements
- Note on the text
- Glossary
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 Strategy
- Chapter 3 Military intelligence
- Chapter 4 The Nankai Shitai
- Chapter 5 From the landing to Deniki
- Chapter 6 Isurava
- Chapter 7 Guadalcanal and Milne Bay
- Chapter 8 The Japanese build-up
- Chapter 9 First Eora–Templeton’s
- Chapter 10 Efogi
- Chapter 11 Ioribaiwa
- Chapter 12 Japanese Artillery
- Chapter 13 Malaria and dysentery
- Chapter 14 The Japanese supply crisis
- Chapter 15 Second Eora–Templeton’s
- Chapter 16 Oivi–Gorari
- Chapter 17 The war in the air
- Chapter 18 Conclusion
- Note on sources
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
On 10 September 1942 Brigadier Selwyn Porter replaced Potts as commander of Maroubra Force. Porter brought reinforcements, 30th Brigade headquarters and 3rd Battalion. The Australian force defeated at Efogi retreated to join Porter. There was fighting near Menari and, their rearguard under attack as they crossed the Maguli Range, the Australians fell back to a blocking position on Ioribaiwa Ridge, where they were to be further reinforced by 25th Brigade. Something more than another defensive stand was planned. While Porter’s force held the Kokoda Track, 25th Brigade was to leave the track south of Ioribaiwa and march to outflank the Japanese on both sides, as Horii had tried at Isurava. The move was in motion when Kusunose’s pursuit group arrived in front of Ioribaiwa. While Kusunose waited for his guns to come up he probed the Australian position. This was vigorous enough for the Australian composite battalion, formed from the remnants of the 2/14th and 2/16th, to think they had repelled an assault. Unaware that the Australians were reinforced and intending an offensive, Kusunose launched his own attack on the afternoon of 14 September. It was to be his last battle in Papua. So ill that he ran the battle from his bed, he was evacuated soon after.
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- The Kokoda Campaign 1942Myth and Reality, pp. 135 - 151Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012