SOLWARA WANTOK (SEA MATES) THE RAN AND THE PNGDF (MARITIME ELEMENT)

摘要

The relationship between Papua New Guinea and Australia stretches back to the 19th Century and is one that, in many respects, is closer than that between Australia and New Zealand. It is true that the Anzac's stood shoulder to shoulder, at Gallipoli in 1915, fighting the Turks in a far off foreign field but in 1942 the fight was much closer to home, much more was at stake and it was the people of Papua and New Guinea (as the area was then known) who stood alongside us in a war of national survival for both peoples.