Built as an emergency landing ground, it was extended during the Second World War by the Imperial Japanese.
Buna was first subjected to American fury during the early days of 1942.
A few half-hearted bombing raids by the disillusioned & discouraged Fifth Air Force's A-20, B-17, and B-25 bombers was about the worst Buna suffered.
Then, in July 1942, General George C. Kenney assumed command of what was by this time, little more than a motley collection of exhausted men and exhausted planes.
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