Keywords: 014225 On the move Buna.JPG 1943-01-26 PAPUA NEARING THE END OF THE PAPUAN CAMPAIGN AGAINST JAPAN AUSTRALIAN AND AMERICAN TROOPS MOVING UP TOWARDS THE JAPANESE POSITIONS AT SANANANDA THE LAST CENTRE OF JAPANESE RESISTANCE IN PAPUA NATIVE BOYS CUT A PATH THROUGH THE LONG KUNAI GRASS BUT EARLIER ALLIED TROOPS HAD HAD TO DRIVE THE JAPS FROM THE AREA POSSIBLY BECAUSE OF SHORTAGES OF FOOD AND ILLINESS JAP OPPOSITION HERE WAS NOT SO FEROCIOUS AT GONA AND BUNA NEGATIVE BY BOTTOMLEY http //www awm gov au/collection/014225/ Australian War Memorial 1943 PD-Australia World War II in the Pacific |