Prefer Jungle Fighting To Desert Warfare
INCOMPREHENSIBLE STUPIDITY OF JAPS (Special Australian Correspondent.) Received Thursday, 8 p.m. SYDNEY, Nov. 4. Many Australian Middle East veterans in New Guinea are revising their opinions of jungle fighting. Some already prefer it to desert warfare. Their reasons briefly are: Firstly, the Japanese tactics are often so stupid as to be incomprehensible; secondly, the Japanese individually is not as formidable a fighter as the German, and once his few tricks are countered he is completely lost; thirdly, our men in New Guinea do not encounter the same concentration of artillery fire; fourthly, water is rarely a problem. An Australian war correspondent says, however, that he believes most of the A.I.F. men in New Guinea would return to the Middle East if given a chance.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 68, Issue 263, 5 November 1943, Page 5
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