Word: buna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some units were flown over the Owen Stanley range. Others walked, lugging their equipment-a terrible trek which took Company E of the 126th Infantry 49 days. On the other side of the range they slogged through mangrove swamps and jungles up the coast to Buna...
...Hell of Buna. In May 1942, the 32nd was dumped into Australia. Douglas MacArthur, beginning his New Guinea campaign, picked it for his onslaught on Buna...
...ghostly jungles closed around them. Snipers potted them and fanatical Japs jumped them from trees. Corpses of haggard-faced, bearded U.S. soldiers bobbed in the flooded rivers. Officers as well as men dropped like flies. Brigadier General Hanford MacNider was wounded. Entrenched on high, dry ground around Buna, the Japs held...
Harding was relieved. MacArthur sent Lieut. General Robert L. Eichelberger to take command of all the Buna forces, which included the 41st Infantry Division-as green as the 32nd-and units of the 6th and 7th Australians. MacArthur's instructions to Eichelberger: don't come back until Buna is taken. Brigadier General Albert Whitney Waldron, put in command of the 32nd, was wounded. Brigadier General Clovis Byers succeeded him and he was wounded. Buna finally fell...
West along the Coast. Kenney's combat airmen grew at their jobs. Their greatest victory was the Battle of the Bismarck Sea, where they sank every one of 2 2 ships in a Jap convoy headed south to reinforce the dug-in forces in the bitter fighting around Buna and Gona. In this technique Douglas MacArthur recognized one of the oldest principles of war-isolation of the battlefield-achieved with war's newest weapon. It was final proof that if he could control the sea north of New Guinea with air power and the help...