Qualla: Battle of Bobdubi https://qualla.com/battle-of-bobdubi en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:28 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Battle of Bobdubi https://qualla.com/battle-of-bobdubi Battle of Bobdubi: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-bobdubi/ Fifty-two men held Ambush Knoll. That was the number the Australian 2/3rd Independent Company counted when the Japanese counterattacks started rolling in, and it was the same number three days and four nights later when the attacks finally stopped. The knoll controlled Bobdubi Ridge, which controlled the supply tracks to Mubo and Salamaua, which controlled, in a way no one at the time could quite see, the timing of the larger war moving up the New Guinea coast. The whole point of fighting here was to make the Japanese look at this jungle instead of somewhere else.

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/p/h/2/battle-of-bobdubi-wp/rph2-battle-of-bobdubi-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Bobdubi: The Long Way to the Ridge https://qualla.com/battle-of-bobdubi/ In late January 1943, Australian defenders had broken a Japanese thrust at the Wau airfield, turning back the last serious attempt to take Port Moresby. Brigadier Murray Moten's 17th Brigade pursued the retreating enemy into the jungles around Mubo. While the main force pushed fr...

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/p/h/2/battle-of-bobdubi-wp/rph2-battle-of-bobdubi-the-long-way-to-the-ridge.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Bobdubi: Old Vickers, Timbered Knoll, the Coconuts https://qualla.com/battle-of-bobdubi/ The second phase of the fighting, from late June into August 1943, gave the world a roll call of small, strange names. Australian soldiers who took the positions did the naming, and the names stuck. "Old Vickers" marked a captured Japanese machine-gun post. "Timbered Knoll" descr...

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/p/h/2/battle-of-bobdubi-wp/rph2-battle-of-bobdubi-old-vickers-timbered-knoll-the-coconuts.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Bobdubi: Fifty-Two Men, Four Nights https://qualla.com/battle-of-bobdubi/ Early in July, the 2/3rd Independent Company took Ambush Knoll. The feature controlled Bobdubi Ridge, and by holding it the Australians threatened the Japanese supply lines running to Mubo and Salamaua. That made retaking it a priority the Japanese could not set aside. Counteratt...

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/p/h/2/battle-of-bobdubi-wp/rph2-battle-of-bobdubi-fifty-two-men-four-nights.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Bobdubi: The Diversion That Worked https://qualla.com/battle-of-bobdubi/ On 17 August, the 2/3rd secured the junction of the Bobdubi-Salamaua Track and held it through two more days of heavy counterattacks before the Japanese withdrew. Salamaua fell on 11 September. None of this had been the actual Allied objective. The objective was Lae, 20 miles to ...

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/p/h/2/battle-of-bobdubi-wp/rph2-battle-of-bobdubi-the-diversion-that-worked.mp3 0:06 5 full Battle of Bobdubi: Ridges That Keep Their Names https://qualla.com/battle-of-bobdubi/ The country around Salamaua is steep, wet, and mostly uninhabited. Bobdubi Ridge, Ambush Knoll, and the tracks the Australians cut or followed have long since been reclaimed by the forest that grew them. Local villagers in the Morobe Province know the sites and will guide visitor...

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