Kapa Kapa Trail - Karekodobu

During early October 1942, US Army, 32nd Infantry Division command post (CP) was established at this location by Major Baetcke.

On October 14, 1942 nine hundred US Army troops under the command by Lt. Col. Henry A Geerds with several native carriers began walking the Kapa Kapa Trail. They would be the only Americans to cross the Owen Stanley Mountains on foot.

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Source

• Text: Kaj Metz
• Photos: United States Department of Defense
• Pacific Wrecks