... as Darwin. Although Japan was very strong during the war (this was shown when they attacked Pearl Harbour, Hawaii, in 1941, and severely depleted the American forces there) the tide turned in 1942 at the Battle of the Coral Sea, which was the Allied forces" first naval win in the region. Another extremely significant victory for Australia came in the Battle for the Kokoda trail, in which a seriously outnumbered Australian ... force took on the advancing Japanese forces from the north coast on their ... not rely on only its trade partnership with Britain, it had to export scrap metal and ...

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