Word: buna
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...will be big enough for both. At least two or three years, probably much longer, may be needed to get Malayan and East Indian plantations back into normal production. Then, even if crude is cheaper than synthetic-say as low as 10½ a pound as against the present Buna S minimum of 14?-competition will still be a minor point because of the potentially enormous demand...
...first day, U.S. infantry veterans of Buna and Saidor held firm in the face of a flood of Japs. The second day, they were forced to give ground; by night the Japs had reached the main U.S. defensive positions on the Driniumor River. They had gained four to five miles; some of them forded the river...
...Buna, Attu or Tarawa thought that perhaps...
There was little opposition as U.S. and Australian troops, veterans of Salamaua and Buna-Gona, hit the beaches. Jap soldiers at Hollandia, evidently numbering considerably fewer than the 10,000 expected there, dashed into the jungle, leaving uneaten breakfasts. Beachheads were secured as easily at the other two points...
...General's statement appeared in a communique announcing that Allied troops had made another landing on the coast of New Guinea, for which MacArthur has been fighting 18 months. But the three-pronged landing (at Hollandia, Aitape and Tanahamera Bay) appeared more important than the early captures of Buna, Lae, Salamaua and other key points on the tortuous New Guinea coast...