The battle was fought by Australian and United States forces against the Japanese beachheads at Buna, Sanananda and Gona. Background · Battle · Aftermath · Footnotes

The battle for Buna cost the Allied forces 2,870 casualties; the 18th Brigade had lost 863, including 306 killed. Close to 1,400 Japanese dead were countered, ...

The battle was conducted by Australian and United States forces against the Japanese beachheads at Buna, Sanananda and Gona.

The little-remembered Battle of Buna was unique among American offensives in the Pacific. It was the only battle that was not preceded by naval gunfire or ...

The Battle For Papua. On July 22, 1942, Japanese army and naval forces executed an amphibious landing on the shore of northern Papua, near the village of Buna.

The Battle of Buna–Gona was part of the New Guinea campaign in the Pacific Theatre during World War II. It followed the conclusion of the Kokoda Track camp.

At Buna partially trained, inexperienced American troops fought in a jungle that was also a swamp, against a formidable enemy they could not see. The ...

12 мая 2022 г. · From mid-November 1942 to the end of January 1943 the Australians and the Americans reduced the Japanese base in the Gona-Buna-Sanananda ...

29 окт. 2024 г. · The key battles at Buna and Sanananda fought by the 18th Infantry Brigade Group as part of Warren Force would result in its most disastrous ...

At Buna alone, of the original 2,000 Japanese defenders, 1,450 were known captured or dead with many more dying in the jungle or at sea. On the Allied side at ...