THE ARCHITECT OF KOKODA

摘要

It would appear that "the architect of Kokoda" would not have wanted his story to be written down. The designer of the famous New Guinea WWII Trail, or Track if you prefer, died in 1988 after several refusals to tell his story to historians. This account is written by his daughter-in-law. Gold-miner, farmer of cattle, and rubber plantation owner, Bert Kienzle was one of the hundreds of white settlers who managed New Guinea before World War II. Once the Japanese entered the war, Kienzle signed up into the military, and due to his local knowledge, was given 1,000 native labourers and a bulldozer, and told to build a road.