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- From: Mark Crispin <mrc@Ikkoku-Kan.Panda.COM>
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- Subject: 50 YEARS AGO TODAY: January 22, 1943 - Fall of Sananda
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 21:31:48 -0800 (PST)
- Organization: University of Washington
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- On January 22, 1943, Sananda, New Guinea, fell to the Allies. Buna had fallen
- on January 2. This ended the Japanese offensive on the territorial capital of
- Port Moresby, and the threat to Australia.
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- The collapse of the New Guinea offensive was the first major Allied land
- victory of the war. It, along with Japan's failure to hold onto Henderson
- Field, the airbase Japan had built on Guadalcanal, was the first sign that all
- was not going to go well for the Japanese Army (the Japanese Navy having been
- humbled at Midway 7 months earlier).
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- Fighting would continue in the jungles of New Guinea until the war ended; and
- for some isolated Japanese soldiers, it continued for decades afterwards...
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- Japan's empire had ceased to grow. In 1943, Japan would be fighting to hold
- on to the empire it had.
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