Short – The Coastwatcher’s Lonely War

S9E63 - Short – The Coastwatcher’s Lonely War

Published: October 14, 2025

Duration: 18:13

In July 1942, as Australia’s armed forces were about to begin what would become the legendary battle for the Kokoda Track, in another occupied part of New Guinea, the brave Aussie coastwatcher Con Page was desperately trying to evade a huge force of Japanese soldiers that was systematically hunting him down.


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