Can You Believe This Lot Were The First To Beat The Japanese In WW2?

If you're basing it purely on the appearance of the ANZACS in the picture, then you'll not be able to comprehend what my grandfather's battalion, the Chindits, managed to achieve if that's what you're going on as your question seems to suggest.

http://www.chindits.info/Photos/Weatherly.html

Yes the Australian Militia sent 1500 servicemen to Papau New Guniea to stop the Japanese from Taking Port Morsby By November 1942 they had Done Just that

In one of the Japanese Jornals he wrote sent 2500 men to Find a weak spot in the Line came upon about 5,000 australians we withdrew and abandoned any Further attempts there were about 168 Australians

and at the Time the closest American was in Australia

The Kokoda Trail was a nasty piece of business.

Heat and bugs, snow and ice, rock and mud, pre-established Japanese ambuscades........you don't come out of that looking fit for the victory parade.

The Japanese force intending to invade Port Moresby was stopped and forced to retreat during the Battle of the Coral Sea before that. The Japanese were decisively defeated at the Battle of Midway before that, and the Japanese were defeated in land battles on Tulagi, Gavutu, and Guadalcanal before that.

yes.

now show a picture of Japanese troops in the same theater at the same time, for comparison.

And what exactly do you mean by "this lot"? Australian troops achieved much more than their Yankee counterparts in this part of the Pacific Campaign. In fact, as with Europe, the Yanks were more of a hindrance than a help.

I'm failing to see the issue with the picture. What's wrong with it?

What's wrong with them. They are tough fighting men, not male models.

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