User:Peacemaker67/Battle of Brigade Hill

The Battle of Brigade Hill was an engagement between Japanese forces of the South Seas Detachment and the Australian 21st Brigade during the Kokoda Track campaign of World War II.

Dispositions
Following the fighting withdrawal of the Australian force from Isurava, Brigadier Arnold Potts, commanding the 21st Brigade, determined to establish a defensive position astride the Kokoda Track on high ground just to the south of the village of Efogi. The depleted and exhausted 2/14th and 2/16th Battalions were joined by the fresh 2/27th Battalion which had been released from its reserve role in Port Moresby. Potts deployed the 2/27th Battalion on the northern end of a spurline called Mission Ridge. This battalion was arranged with B and A Companies forward on the western and eastern sides of the Track respectively. C and D Companies were deployed behind the forward companies on the western and eastern sides of the Track respectively. Behind them, further up the spurline and astride the Track, Potts deployed the 200-odd effectives of the 2/14th Battalion, with three seriously understrength companies forward and one in depth.