BATTLE FOR PLATEAU
! GREAT FEAT OF ARMS (Special P.A. Correspondent.) Rec. 1 p.m. ' SYDNEY, July 27. From New Guinea details of a battle for Mount Tambu, overlooking Salaraaua, are reported. For three days and three nights, from July 16 to 18, the battle raged between a mere handful of A.I.F. men and a Japanese force almost a thousand strong. The Australians beat back seventeen enemy counter-attacks, inflicting casualties estimated at ten times their own. The capture of Mount Tambu is described as an extraordinary feat of arms. The plateau held by the Japanese was a strongly-fortified area, 150 yards by 100 yards. The enemy defences were on the crest of a steep rise, and over the final mile of the Australian attack the grade was one in three, and in some stretches one in two.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 24, 28 July 1943, Page 5
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135BATTLE FOR PLATEAU Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 24, 28 July 1943, Page 5
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