Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Bam din Darwin a ranar 19 ga Fabrairu 1942 shi ne mafi girman hari guda daya da wata kasa ta yi a Australia. 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 ƙoƙarin Japan a kan birnin ta hanyar Kokoda Track
, a 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.