The Battle for Shaggy Ridge'You climb and climb . . . This is the field of battle . . . tonight some of us will be dead . . . You'll never forget Shaggy Ridge.' Shawn O'Leary From the killing ground of Kaiapit to the treacherous heights of the Finisterre Range, for four months in 1943 44, the Australian army fought to drive the Japanese from their mountain strongholds. The most formidable position was the fortress like Shaggy Ridge, its steep sides rising sharply to a knife