Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A watan Satumbar 1942, Blamey ya yanke shawarar aika da Division na 6 zuwa Papua don taimakawa wajen dakatar da ci gaban Jafananci tare da Kokoda Trail
Ka yi haƙuri. Ya ziyarci Laftanar Janar Sydney Rowell, kwamandan New Guinea Force da I Corps, a Port Moresby kuma ya tambaye shi wanda ya fi so ya jagoranci sashen. Rowell ya zaɓi Vasey, don haka Vasey ya zama kwamandan na 6th Division, kuma Berryman ya maye gurbinsa a matsayin DCGS. Daga baya a wannan watan, Janar Douglas MacArthur da Firayim Minista John Curtin sun umarci Blamey da ya dauki kwamandan New Guinea Force. Bayan faduwa, Blamey ya sauya Rowell na farko, ya maye gurbinsa da Herring, sannan kuma Manjo Janar Arthur "Tubby" Allen na 7th Division. A ranar 27 ga Oktoba, Vasey ya tashi zuwa Myola don sauya Allen.