Word: buna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Moresby they slogged through mud a foot deep, through rain that never ceased. The Japs, weakened by dysentery and undernourishment, withdrew as fast as they had advanced. The Australians pushed on toward the gap at the top of the Owen Stanley Range. They started down the slope toward Buna, where the Japs landed last July. Last week they took Kokoda, a thatched native village 60 miles north of Moresby and 60 miles south of Buna, which has a small airfield. At Oivi, a few miles farther on, the Japs made a stand...
This week General MacArthur sprang his surprise. U.S. troops, he announced, were fighting in the vicinity of Buna. Evidently the dirty, sweating U.S. Army engineers had hacked a crude road through the world's wettest, highest jungle, enabling combat troops to cross the mountains on the Australians' flank and knock at the Japs' back door. More troops came in planes which landed on a natural strip discovered in the jungle. Said General MacArthur: "The Allied forces now control all of Papua except the beachhead in the Buna-Gona area...
...Guinea, but it is the most important part of that eerie, partially explored island. For the first time since they landed there last February, it seemed that the Japs might have to look to the defense of their bases, Lae and Salamaua, 150-odd miles northwest of Buna. If MacArthur could take Lae and Salamaua, New Guinea would be lost to the Japs. Already Australian Commandos were harassing the two bases, working in the dead of night with their knives and tommy guns...
...when they decided to go forward over the smaller peaks. The Japs had dug trenches, set up machine-gun nests in the roots of trees, piled up log barricades-but evidently thought better of their plan to defend their foremost ridge, 88 long miles over the mountains from their Buna supply base...
...Office of the Petroleum Coordinator and the Rubber Reserve Company for research and supervision of synthetic-rubber plant construction. He must work out a 100,000-ton increase in butadiene output within six months, build facilities for making 100 million gallons of alcohol, boost the annual output of buna-S all-purpose rubber from 705,000 to 845,000 tons...