At 101, George Turner is one of the only surviving veterans of the 39th battalion so all eyes were on him at a ceremony marking 80 years since the Kokoda campaign in Papua New Guinea. The 80th ...

It has not left him for 80 years – and never will. The 101-year-old is one of three survivors of the Australian Army’s 39th Infantry Battalion. The other two live in Victoria. George Turner remembers ...

One battalion of hardened soldiers, another of young conscripts, and an army of fanatical enemy troops – the Kokoda legend is incredible, writes Warren Brown. These battle-hardened Australian soldiers ...

MIDNIGHT. Beneath the trees, the darkness is almost impenetrable. But the enemy are there … close. They could rush in a wave, or as stealthy lone killers. Or they may not come at all. A sudden scream ...

Veterans have gathered at Melbourne's Shrine of Remembrance to mark the 70th anniversary of the battle of Kokoda. The men of the 39th Australian Infantry Battalion were sent to New Guinea in 1942 with ...

On the 24th of July 1942 a platoon of BCompany 39th Battalion Australian soldiers confronted the forward elements of a Japanese regiment on a narrow jungle track in ...

SITTING astride a makeshift litter hoisted on the shoulders of a tribesman, 90-year-old Kokichi Nishimura is frail but still holds a piercing gaze as he is carried over the rugged hills of the Kokoda ...