Cika wannan jumlar: Bam da aka yi a Darwin a ranar 19 ga Fabrairu, 1942 shi ne hari mafi girma da wata ƙasa ta taɓa kai wa Ostareliya. A ƙoƙarin su ware Ostareliya, Jafananci sun shirya su mamaye Port Moresby, da ke yankin New Guinea na Ostareliya. Tsakanin Yuli da Nuwamba 1942, sojojin Ostiraliya sun kori yunkurin Jafananci a birnin ta hanyar
Kokoda Track, a cikin tsaunukan New Guinea. Yaƙin Buna<unk>Gona, tsakanin Nuwamba 1942 da Janairu 1943, ya saita sautin don matakai na ƙarshe na yakin New Guinea, wanda ya ci gaba har zuwa 1945. Hare-haren da aka kai a Papua da New Guinea na 1943 <unk> 44 sune mafi girman jerin ayyukan da aka haɗa da sojojin Australiya suka taɓa kafawa.