Common-Breakfast-245 OP t1_j6k6zlb wrote on January 30, 2023 at 10:24 PM

Reply to comment by jackrebneysfern in My Pop being rescued by the Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels, deep in the jungles of Papua New Guinea. October 1943. by Common-Breakfast-245

Australia. I remember pop saying "The Yanks were useless because the didn't understand the bush". Referring to the lack of experience in the extremely hot weather and rugged terrain. Pop grew up in a part of Australia that regularly experienced 40 degrees Celsius days.

jackrebneysfern t1_j6ldv00 wrote on January 31, 2023 at 3:33 AM

Wow that’s cool. So your pops was likely alongside those guys. Enduring the same hardships. It’s a crazy story. How crossing the island to defend Port Moresby they had to cross malaria ridden jungles from hell then cross over a 10,000 ft mountain range with ice, snow and freezing temps. Then back down into a ferocious battle so sick and weary they could barely fight.