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Contact Info
Home Town Chester, PA.
Last Address Chester, PA.
Date of Passing Jan 10, 1989
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WWII - Pacific Theater of Operations/Papua Campaign (1942-43)
From Month/Year
July / 1942
To Month/Year
January / 1943
Description (Papua Campaign 23 July 1942 to 23 January 1943) In another effort to take Port Moresby the Japanese landed troops at Buna, Gona, and Sanananda in July 1942. At first the Allies could offer only feeble resistance to the enemy forces that pushed southward through Papua, but the Allies were building up their strength in Australia. By mid September Fifth Air Force had superiority in the air over New Guinea, and the Japanese drive had been stopped. The Allies then began to push the enemy back, with Fifth Air Force ferrying supplies and reinforcements to the troops fighting in the jungle. Buna was taken on 2 January 1943, and enemy resistance at Sanananda ended three weeks later.
