Word: buna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...half of that air force was destroyed on the ground on the first day, the rest swiftly whittled away by the more experienced Japs. In Australia, MacArthur got a new air commander, Lieut. General George H. Brett. But when Brett's airmen failed to stop a landing at Buna and Gona in New Guinea, Brett was relieved; MacArthur asked Washington for someone else...
...Australia to Port Moresby, when the Japs were within 28 miles of pushing the Allies out of New Guinea. These troops helped the Australians to drive the enemy back across the Owen Stanleys. Then Kenney told the Chief he could fly soldiers in greater numbers across the mountains to Buna and Gona, land them there on strips cut out of the bristling kunai grass...
...were just about at our lowest ebb when I got there," Torbie said, "but the tide began to turn at Buna. Our job was to keep reinforcements and supplies from reaching the Japs, who were still advancing down the coast...
...three-star generals in Marine Corps history. The others: ex-Commandant (now Minister to South Africa) Thomas Holcomb, and present Commandant Alexander Archer Vandegrift. * At least three other Army divisions in the Pacific have had their commanders relieved in mid-battle: the 32nd (Buna), the 7th (Attu), the 43rd (New Georgia-the latter two by admirals...
Considering its strategic importance, MacArthur's coastal campaign had been one of the most economical of World War II. The first stages had been slow and costly: a heartrending series of marches through jungles and over mountains to battle at Buna, Gona, Sanananda, Salamaua, Lae. But while the campaign to secure a foothold on one tip of the great island was being fought the hard way, a better, smarter war was being planned...