Qualla: Battle of Oivi-Gorari https://qualla.com/battle-of-oivi-gorari en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:29 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/r/q/3/j/battle-of-oivi-gorari-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Battle of Oivi-Gorari https://qualla.com/battle-of-oivi-gorari Battle of Oivi-Gorari: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-oivi-gorari/ Photo credit U.S. Army Center of Military History, Public domain. Of all the ways the Kokoda Track campaign could have ended, this was perhaps the least cinematic: a river in flood, a ruined wire bridge, and men who had fought in mountain jungle for months standing on the bank watching their enemy drown. Between 4 and 11 November 1942, the 7th Australian Division trapped the remnants of Major General Tomitaro Horii's South Seas Detachment between two brigades and the Kumusi River. What followed was a rout, a drowning and a pause. The campaign was over. The killing was not.

Read more: Battle of Oivi-Gorari on Qualla

Image: U.S. Army Center of Military History | Public domain

]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/q/3/j/battle-of-oivi-gorari-wp/rq3j-battle-of-oivi-gorari-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Oivi-Gorari: Why Oivi Mattered https://qualla.com/battle-of-oivi-gorari/ Photo credit U.S. Army Center of Military History, Public domain. Kokoda had been retaken on 2 November, unopposed, the flag raised by Major General George Vasey in a ceremony on 3 November. Supplies were flying in. Wounded were being evacuated by air for the first time in months. The Kokoda Track, until then a pipeline that leaked ninety per c...

Read more: Battle of Oivi-Gorari on Qualla

Image: U.S. Army Center of Military History | Public domain

]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/q/3/j/battle-of-oivi-gorari-wp/rq3j-battle-of-oivi-gorari-why-oivi-mattered.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Oivi-Gorari: The Frontal Problem https://qualla.com/battle-of-oivi-gorari/ Photo credit U.S. Army Center of Military History, Public domain. On 4 November, Brigadier John Lloyd's 16th Brigade hit the Oivi position and bounced. Well-sited machine guns and well-dug infantry held off several frontal attacks across three days. It was the same lesson Lloyd had bloodied himself against at Eora Village: in New Guinea jungle,...

Read more: Battle of Oivi-Gorari on Qualla

Image: U.S. Army Center of Military History | Public domain

]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/q/3/j/battle-of-oivi-gorari-wp/rq3j-battle-of-oivi-gorari-the-frontal-problem.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Oivi-Gorari: Gorari, 10 November https://qualla.com/battle-of-oivi-gorari/ Photo credit U.S. Army Center of Military History, Public domain. The 25th Brigade made the turn north on 9 November and hit Gorari on the morning of the tenth. What followed was close-quarters work, hand-to-hand in places, with heavy casualties on both sides. The Japanese defenders were surprised, cut off from their own line of retreat, and fi...

Read more: Battle of Oivi-Gorari on Qualla

Image: U.S. Army Center of Military History | Public domain

]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/q/3/j/battle-of-oivi-gorari-wp/rq3j-battle-of-oivi-gorari-gorari-10-november.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Oivi-Gorari: The Kumusi https://qualla.com/battle-of-oivi-gorari/ Photo credit U.S. Army Center of Military History, Public domain. The Kumusi River flows out of the Owen Stanleys toward the north coast, crossing the track at a place the Australians called Wairopi, Tok Pisin for wire rope, because of the wire-cable suspension bridge that had once spanned it. Allied bombing had destroyed that bridge weeks earl...

Read more: Battle of Oivi-Gorari on Qualla

Image: U.S. Army Center of Military History | Public domain

]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/q/3/j/battle-of-oivi-gorari-wp/rq3j-battle-of-oivi-gorari-the-kumusi.mp3 0:06 5 full Battle of Oivi-Gorari: Engineers, Flying Foxes and What Came Next https://qualla.com/battle-of-oivi-gorari/ Photo credit U.S. Army Center of Military History, Public domain. The Australians crossed the Kumusi between 13 and 16 November using whatever they could improvise. Engineers strung flying foxes (a single-cable zip line) and a narrow footbridge between the banks. Engineering stores were thin, so the 25th Brigade went first, one company at a tim...

Read more: Battle of Oivi-Gorari on Qualla

Image: U.S. Army Center of Military History | Public domain

]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/q/3/j/battle-of-oivi-gorari-wp/rq3j-battle-of-oivi-gorari-engineers-flying-foxes-and-what-came-next.mp3 0:06 6 full