Word: buna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...force in Australia has had many obstacles to contend with-including deficiencies in the quality and number of planes available. But it also has by & large no outstanding record for getting results. Its most obvious failure was in not successfully interfering with the Jap landing at Buna (TIME, Aug. 3), the landing which resulted in last week's threat to Port Moresby...
When the Aussies located the enemy they fought the invaders with pistols, knives and bayonets. Allied planes machine-gunning snipers in treetops, sheared the trees until they looked like hedgerows. Allied bombers raided the Jap base at Buna, which barked back with newly emplaced ack-ack guns. The righting was the heaviest yet seen in New Guinea; casualties ran high. But still the Japs kept coming. They fought their way up and over the highest ridges, started downhill after the slowly retreating Australians...
...only was it a bellyful of surprise; it was a shoeful of irritation to the hop-skipping Jap, to whom the total conquest of New Guinea is becoming increasingly difficult. Ever since he landed at Buna on the north shore July 22, he has been trying to get at Port Moresby. His land forces have worn themselves out on New Guinea's sharp-humped backbone. Now a sweep around the seacoast had been wrecked...
...Synthetic rubber-the Buna processes, which are the foundation of the U.S. synthetic-rubber program, and Standard's butyl, developed from I.G.'s Vistanex. Asked Standard's Farish, "What do you think Hitler would give today to be able to keep America from using these discoveries and processes...
From new beachheads at Buna and Gona Mission, Japanese foot soldiers slithered through the dark jungles of New Guinea like drops of mercury spilled on a door mat. They were far down below their landing points before the last of their force had set foot aground. But this time they ran into opposition that was more jungle-wise than they...