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1 28-29 July
The Australian AMF first contact the advance elements of the Japanese South Seas Detachment. Despite being hugely outnumbered, the Australians manage to convince the Japanese that they were ten times their actual size.
2 8-9 August
The village of Kokoda is fought over, lost by the Australians and then abandoned by the Japanese