Kokoda

part of the Pacific War of World War II

1942 Australian newsreel directed by Ken G. Hall

Japanese general (1890–1942)

trail in Papua New Guinea, WW2 battlefield

Kokoda is a station town in the Oro Province of Papua New Guinea. It is famous as the northern end of the Kokoda Track, site of the eponymous Kokoda Track campaign of World War II. In that campaign, it had strategic significance because it had the only airfield along the Track. In the decades preceding, it had been a foothills settlement near the gold fields.

airport