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Victory in Papua / by Samuel Milner.

by Milner, Samuel, author.

Washington D.C. : Center of Military History, United States Army, 2003.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Papua New Guinea.

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http://www.archive.org/details/victoryinpapua00miln

United States Army in World War II. War in the Pacific.

xv, 409 pages : illustrations, maps (some color) ; 26 cm + 5 folded maps.

The Japanese threaten Australia -- Preparing the defense -- The thwarted landing -- Providence forestalled -- Kokoda thrust -- The Japanese offensive collapse -- The advance on the beachhead -- The allies close in -- The opening blows in General Vasey's area -- The first two weeks in Buna -- I Corps reaches the front -- The fighting west of the Girua -- Buna : the second two weeks -- Warren Force takes the initiative -- Urbana Force closes on the mission -- The fall of Buna -- Clearing the track junction -- The final offensive -- The victory.

For the 32d Division, the Papua Campaign was "a military nightmare," its men living under intolerable conditions, plagued by disease, short of equipment, ill-prepared for jungle fighting, and pitted against a skilled and resolute foe.

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