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Victory in Papua

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
Print Book, English, 1957
Office of the Chief of Military History, Dept. of the Army, Washington, D.C., 1957
Government publications
xv, 409 pages : illustrations, maps (some folded, some color, 1 in pocket), portraits ; 26 cm
1260772
The Japanese threaten Australia
Preparing the defense
The thwarted landing
Providence forestalled
Kokoda thrust
The Japanese offensive collapses
The advance on the beachhead
The Allies close in
The opening blows in General Vasey's area
The first two weeks at 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
Large 8vo
Document for sale by the Superintendent of Documents, cloth, $6.00
[Copyright 1957 by R.W. Stevens.]