A hard victory at Buna

2nd January 1943: U.S. and Australian troops finally overcome the last of the Japanese dug in at Buna on Papua New Guinea

"U.S. forces inflict heavy casualties on Jap[ane]s[e soldiers] in capture of Buna, New Guinea. On the beach of Buna Mission, last point of Japanese resistance in the Papuan section of New Guinea, the bodies of slain Japanese soldiers lie a few steps from their shattered landing boat. The Japanese suffered heavy losses in this engagement and eventually w…