Australia On This Day

21 July - 1942 - The Coastwatcher's Last Stand


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REPEAT: On this day in 1942, the battle for the Kokoda Track began — just as the long and lonely war of a brave Australian coastwatcher came to its end in another part of New Guinea. Con Page isn’t a name that’s widely known – but it should be.

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