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Jungle rot eats to the bone!
Steep ridges scream in monsoon's moan!
JAP sneaks on the Owers' Corridor!
DIGGERS ANSWER WITH THE BAYONET'S ROAR!
Slug through mud that sucks your boots!
Ambush from the bamboo roots!
CHOKED TRAIL BECOMES THEIR GRAVE!
NO MERCY FOR THE RISING SUN WAVE!
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"CUT THEIR SUPPLY! STARVE THE BEAST!
LET THE RAIN DO THE REST!"
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KOKODA'S FIST! NEW GUINEA'S WRATH!
JAPAN'S NIGHTMARE ON THE JUNGLE PATH!
FROM MILNE BAY'S MANGROVE SWAMP!
TO BUNA'S BUNKERS STOMP!
WE ARE THE RATS OF TOBRUK'S BREED!
MAKE THE EMPEROR'S ELITE BLEED!
NO SURRENDER! NO RETREAT!
TILL THE SOUTH PACIFIC'S CLEAN!
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Monsoon night! Black as tar!
JAP commandos row too far!
Aussie mortars LIGHT THE SHORE!
Type 95 tanks CORE!
Mangrove roots slick with red!
Banzai charge meets Vickers' lead!
FIRST LAND DEFEAT FOR THE JAP!
AUSTRALIA'S CLAWS ARE TRAPPED!
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"They raped our nurses in Hong Kong...
Starved our mates in Sandakan's wrong...
SO HERE IN NEW GUINEA'S HEART —
WE TEAR THEIR EMPIRE APART!"
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KOKODA'S FIST! NEW GUINEA'S WRATH!
JAPAN'S NIGHTMARE ON THE JUNGLE PATH!
RAIN SOAKS UNIFORMS TO RAGS!
MAGGOTS FEAST ON RISING SUN FLAGS!
WE ARE THE RATS OF TOBRUK'S BREED!
MAKE THE EMPEROR'S ELITE BLEED!
SHATTERED SAMURAI SCREAM IN VAIN!
SOUTHERN CROSS RULES THE RAIN!
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1945... Shōwa's dream drowns in mud...
But in Port Moresby's mist —
The Diggers' oath still whispers:
"COME AGAIN, YOU BASTARDS —
WE'LL BURY YOU DEEPER!"
*(Slouch hat hits ground + Lee-Enfield empty click)*