Marshall’s Reviews > Bloody Buna: The Battle for the Beachhead New Guinea 1942 > Status Update

Conclusion
- Eichelberger falsely claims Buna was Japan’s first land defeat in the Pacific
- American Official History wrongly states the 32nd Division took it by themselves
- 2,817 Allied casualties, 40% American & 60% Australian

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- 3,000 Japanese killed at Buna
- Eichelberger learns valuable lessons for future campaigns
- Blamey & Herring congratulate Warren & Urbana Forces
- Marshall thanks MacArthur for progress on Buna
- Allied equipment now directed to Sanananda

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- Australians finally capture plantation
- Few Japanese prisoners consist of Koreans conscripts & Chinese labourers
- Warren & Urbana Forces link up
- Americans take Buna Mission Station
- Buna now fully in Allied hands

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- Urbana Front: B-17 Flying Fortresses, Beufighters, Bostons & Kittyhawks raid Japanese positions
- Japanese spotted swimming to Sanananda
- They leave wounded behind with grenades

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- Australian tanks spearhead advance
- They are eventually countered by Japanese Molotov cocktails
- Alfred Dyne awarded MM
- Australians grateful to American medical staff, but impressed with infantry

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- Warren Force plans all-out attack at Girupa Point, January 1943
- Urbana Front attacking Buna Mission
- Japanese inability to hold Buna becoming increasingly apparent

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- Warren Force planning to attack plantation
- Japanese at Sanananda unaware of situation in Buna

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- Japanese presence on Buna slowly fading
- George Spencer awarded DCM

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- Japanese disguise as Australian & American troops
- Old Strip fully cleared of Japanese
- Eichelberger worried about condition of Buna situation
- American amphibious landing becomes disastrous failure
- Milan Miljitavich awarded DSC
- Papuan Infantry Battalion expecting Japanese withdrawal coming their way

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- Japanese resistance at Old Strip fading
- Murray Brown awarded MC
- Americans capture the Triangle