Talk:Battle of Buna-Gona

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[edit] Sanananda

I'm a bit dissapointed with the way the battle of Sanananda is mentioned.

"The US 163rd Regiment Infantry — from the US 41st Infantry Division — joined the assault on the last Japanese holdout, at Sanananda, which was taken on January 22."

The Australians made the assault because the US regiment refused orders to advance due to low moral after taking serious casualties in an earlier battle. They only "joined the assault" after the fighting was largely over. In fact a bone of contention for Australians is a memorial erected there by the American Legion that not only doesn't mention the Aussies but states that the 128th infantry at Sanananda prevented a new Japanese advance to Kokoda (which was impossible even if the Japanese had won) and was a major part of the "American" victory in New Guinea.

I feel Sanananda should have it's own page. Wayne 04:52, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Well, feel free to start that page, Wayne. Logically it will be a subsidiary page to this one as it was part of the same campaign and Sanananda, geographically speaking, is between Buna and Gona. Grant | Talk 16:27, 18 May 2007 (UTC)