5.Aaron
Actually the Australians that stopped the Japs on the Kokoda Trail were, believe it or not “chokos”, that is reservists.
Australia’s best troops were on the way back from Tobruk and such places in North Africa and Churchill was trying desperately to retain control of them and divert them to Singapore while the Australian Prime Minister Curtin was trying to get them home post Pearl Harbor to defend their homeland.
The Regulars got up into the jungle and handed the Japs their first military defeat on land in many years.