Word: buna
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...reason was interesting. A veteran of the Pacific war, now recuperating at Prescott's big Army hospital, he said that when six copies of TIME'S domestic edition turned up in his division during the Buna campaign, the boys took infinite pains to preserve them so they could pass them along, page by page. For some reason, the slick paper they were printed on survived the New Guinea jungle rot better than any other reading matter...
...strike on the Buna works at Hüls, never repeated, showed the vulnerability of the German rubber industry by reducing the Wehrmacht's stock of tires to six weeks' supply...
Many of these bodies had already been moved two or three times, namely from the Solomons and New Britain to the beautiful little cemetery at Oro Bay, in which also the dead from the Buna-Gona campaign had been buried...
Lieut. General Robert L. Eichelberger, asked by Japanese reporters to summarize his military career, boiled it down to a nine-word order to an interpreter: "Tell them I fought from Buna to the Philippines...
Biak & Beyond. At Biak, Eichelberger was sent to rescue another bogged-down force, again superseded a classmate (Major General Horace H. Fuller), straightened out the situation with less trouble than he had had at Buna. It was a clever job of tactics-no frontal assaults, much fast-stepping, cleverly conceived flank movement, a swift securing of the three vital Biak airfields. For such imaginative tactics MacArthur made Eichelberger commander of the new Eighth Army...