{"id":5420,"date":"2014-12-14T07:44:42","date_gmt":"2014-12-14T13:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=5420"},"modified":"2014-12-14T07:44:42","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T13:44:42","slug":"this-week-in-the-war-14-20-december-1942-australians-and-americans-capture-buna-in-papua-new-guinea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=5420","title":{"rendered":"This week in the War, 14–20 December 1942: Australians and Americans capture Buna in Papua New Guinea"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Papua stretcher bearers in New Guinea, carrying American wounded from the front lines, rest in the shade of a coconut grove, Buna 1942-3 [Public domain, wiki]<\/p><\/div>The Kokoda Trail campaign<\/a> had grown into\u00a0weeks of desperate fighting until the tide finally began to turn: This week in the war, on 14 December 1942, American troops captured Buna village in south-eastern Papua New Guinea.<\/p>\n

Japanese destroyers and transports attempting to supply their diminishing forces were attacked by American aircraft while, on the following day, a Dutch cargo vessel delivered tanks to Australian troops\u00a0in Oro Bay.<\/p>\n

The tanks were used to attack the Japanese salient around Buna Mission. The Japanese position was strongly held and was not overcome until early January 1943.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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