GALLANT FEAT
PERFORMED BY AUSTRALIANS IN NEW GUINEA CAPTURE OF DOMINATING HILL. ACHIEVED BY SMALL FORCE. (Special Australian Correspondent.) (Received This Day, 12.30 p.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. From New Guinea details are reported of the battle for Mount Tambu, overlooking Salamaua. For three days and three nights, between July 16 and 18, a battle raged between a mere handful of A.LF. men and a Japanese force almost 1,000 strong. The Australians beat back seventeen enemy coun-ter-attacks, inflicting casualties estimated at ten times their own. The capture of Mount Tambu is described as “an extraordinary feat of
arms.” The plateau held by the Japanese was a strongly fortified area, 150 by 100 yards. The enemy defences were on the crest of a steep rise. Over the final mile of the Australian attack, the grade was one in three and in some stretches one in two.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 July 1943, Page 4
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