Word: buna
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...North Africa, the U.S. advance was stalled for lack of air superiority. From the Solomons came little news of fighting. Sole bright spot on the fighting front was Buna, which finally fell into U.S. hands. But from one battlefront-on which all others ultimately depend-the nation received dramatic news of great successes...
This week, 25 days after the Battle for Buna began, Allied infantrymen swept out of the slimy, matted New Guinea jungles into the tiny village. Thereby they cut off the head of the 13-mile-long, snakelike Jap line which lay writhing on the beach...
Capping a week of desperation, the Japs had tried to reinforce the area adjoining Buna. But bombers and strafing fighters sank nearly all their landing barges after hitting the warships which were standing by. Though they knew they faced annihilation, the Japs fought fanatically. In one pocket, where 638 Japs were killed, the living were observed wearing gas masks against the stench of their fellows. No man among the Allies expected the remaining Japs to surrender, even though the last man was backed into the water or left alone in a concrete pillbox...
...MACARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Australia--The besieged Japanese defense positions in the Buna area of New Guinea are being kept under continous artillery and mortar fire while Allied planes continue to blast them with bombs and bullets the Allied Command announced today...
Fifteen miles northwest of Buna Allied patrols are mopping up Japanese stragglers west of Gona which fell to Australian troops last Wednesday said the mid-day communique from Allied headquarters...