John Yamamoto-Wilson wrote:
>I would have
> thought it was the Americans fighting alongside the Canadians and the
> Australians.
>

I was just reading about the Australians in PNG. My grandfather 
was part of a militia unit that stopped the Japanese army 
advancing south and I was checking a few facts. I knew The US 
troops in the north were having a tough time against the 
Japanese; but I was pleasantly surprised to learn that when the 
Australians arrived from Nth Africa an Australian brigade 
commander was put in command of a US division (a division usually 
has 2 or 3 brigades) as well as his own brigade.