in the running bloody Kokoda battles over extremely harsh terrains under intense hardships&mdash; fought during a six-month span Manchester, p. Six months to recapture Buna and Gona from July 21–22, 1942 all along the Kokoda Track in 1942–43, and mentions that to be hospital-evacuated, Allied soldiers (who cycled forces) had to run a fever of 102 Farad , and that sickness casualties outnumbered weapons-inflicted casualties 5:1.