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Victory in Papua by Samuel Milner US Army War of Pacific Soft Cover
Victory in Papua by Samuel Milner
THE US Army in the War in Pacific
Soft Cover
367 pages
Copyright 2018
CONTENTS
FOREWORD5
THE AUTHOR6
PREFACE7
CHAPTER I: THE JAPANESE THREATEN AUSTRALIA9
CHAPTER II: PREPARING THE DEFENSE23
CHAPTER III: THE THWARTED LANDING42
CHAPTER IV: PROVIDENCE FORESTALLED54
CHAPTER V: KOKODA THRUST66
CHAPTER VI: THE JAPANESE OFFENSIVE COLLAPSES 82
CHAPTER VII: THE ADVANCE ON THE BEACHHEAD108
CHAPTER VIII: THE ALLIES CLOSE IN129
CHAPTER IX: THE OPENING BLOWS IN GENERAL VASEY'S AREA149
CHAPTER X: THE FIRST TWO WEEKS AT BUNA171
CHAPTER XI: I CORPS REACHES THE FRONT197
CHAPTER XII: THE FIGHTING WEST OF THE GIRUA214
CHAPTER XIII: BUNA: THE SECOND TWO WEEKS237
CHAPTER XIV: WARREN FORCE TAKES THE INITIATIVE 264
CHAPTER XV: URBANA FORCE CLOSES ON THE MISSION 281
CHAPTER XVI: THE FALL OF BUNA301
CHAPTER XVII: CLEARING THE TRACK JUNCTION322
CHAPTER XVIII: THE FINAL OFFENSIVE342
CHAPTER XIX: THE VICTORY359
PREFACE
The strategic significance of the Papuan Campaign can be briefly stated. In addition to blunting the Japanese thrust toward Australia and the transpacific line of communications, it put General MacArthur's forces in a favorable position to take the offensive. But this little known campaign is significant for still another reason. It was the battle test of a large hitherto-inexperienced U. S. Army force and its commanders under the conditions which were to attend much of the ground fighting in the Pacific. Costly in casualties and suffering, it taught lessons that the Army had to learn if it was to cope with the Japanese under conditions of tropical warfare.
Since the official records of this early campaign were quite poor, the task of portraying American ground action in it accurately required that a great deal of essential information be found elsewhere. This supplementary information was secured in large part from participants whose names are to be found in the Bibliographical Note at the end of the volume
To tell the Australian side of the story adequately also required more information than was to be found in the available sources. That I never lacked for such information was due principally to Gavin Long, the Official Australian War Historian and to two members of his staff, John Balfour and Dudley McCarthy. McCarthy's draft chapters on Australian action on the Sanananda front were invaluable in helping me to round out the picture of the fighting that went on on that front. Lt. Col. Peter S. Teesdale-Smith, a participant in the campaign and a member of the
Australian Military Mission in Washington during the time that this book was in preparation, helped me greatly in making Australian action come alive. While the information thus given me has been of the greatest assistance, the responsibility both for the way it was used and for any errors that may have resulted is, of course, my own.
In the Office of the Chief of Military History, I wish to express my gratitude to Dr. Kent Roberts Greenfield, Chief Historian, for his careful reading of the manuscript and his excellent suggestions for its improvement. Particular thanks are due to Mr. Joseph R. Friedman, Chief of the Editorial Branch, for his extremely fine work in editing the manuscript. It was a pleasure to work with him.
15 March 1955 SAMUEL MILNER
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