Historian Duffy (Lincoln’s Admiral) recovers from the annals of nearly lost history the decisive WWII campaign to secure New Guinea from Japanese forces. Duffy’s clear, concise, and comprehensive ...

In 1942, after Pearl Harbor and the other dark days of December 1941, the U.S. Army was embarking on a long hard struggle against the Japanese forces in the Pacific. The Battle for Buna, starting ...

User-Created Clip October 30, 2017 2017-10-28T22:04:11-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/14e/20171028220704003_hd.jpgU.S. Army engineer Lieutenant Colonel Ken ...

Papua New Guinea has had great difficulty distilling the complex experiences of World War II into national history, but at the same time Australians have elevated and celebrated the significance of ...

Wilbert Gus Linsenbardt was one of many soldiers killed in action during fighting in 1942 in Papua New Guinea. He was laid to rest in a military cemetery overseas and, through the years, his gravesite ...