"Thenceforth, the Battle of Milne Bay became an infantry struggle in the sopping jungle carried on mostly at night under pouring rain. The Aussies were fighting mad, for they had found some of their captured fellows tied to trees and bayoneted to death, surmounted by the placard, 'It took them a long time to die'."
– Samuel Eliot Morison, Breaking the Bismarcks Barrier, p. 38
Australian soldiers resting in the Finisterre Ranges of New Guinea while en route to the front line
Marines of the 1st Marine Division display Japanese flags captured during the Battle of Cape Gloucester