The turquoise coastline of Papua New Guinea looked calm from offshore. It lied. On November 16, 1942, US troops of the 32nd Infantry Division climbed down into landing craft and pushed toward Buna and ...
Mar 12, 2017 Mar 12, 2017 Updated Sep 25, 2019 0 In July and August of 1942, Japan landed about 11,000 experienced soldiers near Buna, on New Guinea’s northern coast. They trekked through the jungle ...
Forty-nine sets of remains linked to the battle but buried as "unknowns" in the Manila American Cemetery after WWII are being disinterred and shipped to Offutt to be identified using DNA technology ...