Buna Bay is a bay and port on the southeast coast of Papua New Guinea. An important shipping port, it was developed for the purpose of transporting agricultural...
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The battle of Buna–Gona was part of the New Guinea campaign in the Pacific theatre during World War II. It followed the conclusion of the Kokoda Track...
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Look up buna in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Buna may refer to: Buna, Mostar, a village in Bosnia and Herzegovina at the confluence of the Buna and Neretva...
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Monowitz concentration camp (redirect from Monowitz Buna Werke)
Monowitz (also known as Monowitz-Buna, Buna and Auschwitz III) was a Nazi concentration camp and labor camp (Arbeitslager) run by Nazi Germany in occupied...
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The battle of Buna–Gona was part of the New Guinea campaign in the Pacific theatre during World War II. It followed the conclusion of the Kokoda Track...
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Nitrile rubber (redirect from Buna-N)
1931 at BASF and Bayer, then part of chemical conglomerate IG Farben. The first commercial production began in Germany in 1935. The Buna-Werke was a slave...
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Oro Bay is a bay in Oro Province, Papua New Guinea, located 15 miles (24 km) southeast of Buna. The bay is located within the larger Dyke Ackland Bay. A...
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Japanese airfields at Buna on 24 and 25 August, which reduced the number of Japanese fighters available to support the attack on Milne Bay to just six. Over...
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Bloody Buna is a board wargame published by the British wargame publisher World Wide Wargames (3W) in 1972 that simulates the New Guinea Campaign between...
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would first be established at Milne Bay, located in the forked eastern end of the Papuan peninsula, and at Buna, a village on the northeast coast of...
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tribe in the area. They are known for setting up markets along the road to Buna Bay to Yodda Goldfield and trading taro with tobacco and glass bottles. Sangara...
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Meer, who helped to plan the Monowitz camp (Auschwitz III) and IG Farben's Buna Werke factory at Auschwitz, where medical experimentation had been conducted...
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Polybutadiene (redirect from Buna rubber)
synthetic polybutadiene rubber produced in Germany by Bayer using sodium as a catalyst was known as "Buna rubber". Polybutadiene is typically crosslinked with...
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Battle of Buna–Gona Milne Force Operation Lilliput Milne Bay seen from space. Milne Bay from Alotau. Treehouse, in 1884-1885 Map of the bay Wikivoyage...
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Buna is a Balikpapan-class heavy landing craft operated by the Papua New Guinea Defence Force (PNGDF). Prior to 1974, the vessel was called HMAS Buna...
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USS Bayonne (redirect from JDS Buna (PF-294))
Navy as EK-25 and in the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force as JDS Buna (PF-14), JDS Buna (PF-294) and as YAC-11. Bayonne was laid down under a Maritime Commission...
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The invasion of Buna–Gona, called Operation RI by the Japanese, was a military operation by Imperial Japanese forces to occupy the Buna–Gona area in the...
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HMAS Jervis Bay (AKR 45) was a wave piercing catamaran that operated in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Built by Incat in Tasmania and launched in 1997...
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Gulf of Drin (redirect from Bay of Drin)
Albania. Roughly scythe-shaped, it extends immediately from the Delta of the Buna in the north, across the port city of Shëngjin, to the Cape of Rodon in the...
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Coral Sea, 4–8 May 1942 Invasion of Buna-Gona, July 1942 Kokoda Track campaign, July–November 1942 Battle of Milne Bay, August–September 1942 Battle of Goodenough...
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Kokoda Track campaign (section Advance on Buna–Gona)
States. Japanese forces landed and established beachheads near Gona and Buna on 21 July 1942. Opposed by Maroubra Force, then consisting of four platoons...
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The Buna River-Velipojë Protected Landscape (Albanian: Peisazh i Mbrojtur Lumi Buna-Velipojë) is a protected landscape area in northwestern Albania, encompassing...
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HMAS Choules (redirect from RFA Largs Bay)
HMAS Choules (L100) is a Bay-class landing ship that served with the Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) from 2006 to 2011, before being purchased by the Royal...
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late-September, 1942, the Australian forces began pushing the Japanese back toward Buna. The retreat of the Japanese forces quickly became a rout, with many falling...
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Ackland Bay, Oro Province. During World War II, the area around the village was used as a staging area for allied forces for the Battle of Buna-Gona. The...
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Robert L. Eichelberger (section Battle of Buna-Gona)
Area, where he led American and Australian troops in the bloody Battle of Buna–Gona. In 1944, he had notable victories at Hollandia and the Battle of Biak...
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Lake Skadar (category Buna (Adriatic Sea) basin)
northwest to southeast, and it is approximately 44 km (27 miles) long. The Buna River connects the lake with the Adriatic Sea, and the Drin River provides...
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supporting the construction of an IG Farben Buna-N (synthetic rubber) plant—known as Monowitz Buna Werke (or Buna)—near the Monowitz concentration camp, part...
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1931 at BASF and Bayer, then part of chemical conglomerate IG Farben. The first commercial production began in Germany in 1935. The Buna-Werke was a slave...
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Operation Lilliput (section Oro Bay)
Milne Bay and Oro Bay, New Guinea between 18 December 1942 and June 1943 in order "to cover reinforcement, supply, and development of the Buna-Gona area...
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