Word: driniumor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...cover, no sea support; the Allies had plenty. The attack, dubbed by MacArthur "a hazardous movement of doubtful success," faltered. The enemy paused to regroup, but while he did so, American reinforcements arrived in time to wipe out the Japs on the west side of the Driniumor. Like their comrades on New Britain and Bougainville, who were also cut off, the Japs had no hope of victory or of rescue. Unlike their comrades on Saipan they could still hide out and make the miserable best of the jungle...
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