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 campaign and lasted from 16 November 1942 until 22 January 1943. The battle was fought by Australian and United States forces against the Japanese beachheads at Buna, Sanananda and Gona.

The Japanese developed a plan to land an invasion force at Buna-Gona, on the North shore of New Guinea, attack across the Owen-Stanley Mountains using the Kokoda Trail, and take Port Moresby from the North. This operation would be supported logistically from Buna-Gona with resources sent from Rabaul.[3]

2019年9月13日 · One became the first victory of the war by an American ground commander. The other was far more personal. Japanese soldiers lie on the beach near Buna Government Station in January 1943, their wrecked landing vessel in the background. One lieutenant general in particular was behind the U.S. Army’s successful capture of Buna.

The invasion of Buna–Gona, called Operation RI by the Japanese, was a military operation by Imperial Japanese forces to occupy the Buna–Gona area in the Territory of Papua during the Pacific campaign of the Second World War. [1] The initial landings and advance on Kokoda occurred between 21 and 27 July 1942.

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 campaign and lasted from 16 November 1942 until 22 January 1943. The battle was conducted by Australian and United States forces against the Japanese beachheads at Buna, Sanananda and Gona.

The largest Auschwitz sub-camp, called Buna, was located here from 1942 to 1945. The Nazis sent thousands of prisoners from various countries, the majority of them Jewish, to Buna (there were approximately 10,000 prisoners in this camp in 1944).

2024年5月16日 · The Battle of Buna-Gona was a brutal crucible that forged a new kind of American soldier – jungle-savvy, resourceful, and determined. It shattered the myth of Japanese invincibility and proved ...

2006年6月12日 · Buna was General Douglas MacArthur’s first offensive campaign against Japanese troops in World War II. As supreme commander, Southwest Pacific Area (SWPA), MacArthur expected American soldiers to seize the Japanese forward base at Buna, on Papua New Guinea, speedily and without many casualties.

Buna, a village on the coastal plain of northern Papua, was the main base for the Japanese advance along the Kokoda Trail. The first Japanese landings in the area occurred at Gona, east of Buna, on 21 July 1941 and Buna was later occupied by troops on foot.

On May 6, 1942, American and Philippine forces on Corregidor surrendered to the Japanese. Even as they did, the next Japanese offensive was already in progress. Steaming south from the island fortress of Truk, a powerful Japanese task force threaded its way through the Solomon Islands and into the Coral Sea.