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...origin of the name of Owen Stanley Range, New Guinea...
...Guinea History...
...Owen Stanley for whom the Pacific's wildest mountains are named was a captain of the Royal Navy who, in H.M.S. Rattlesnake, a frigate, surveyed Torres Straits, the channel between the Great Barrier Reef and the Australian mainland and the southeast coasts of New Guinea and the Louisiades...
GENERAL MACARTHUR'S HEAD-QUARTERS, Australia -- (Late Bulletin) Australian troops have entered Gona, a communique said tonight. Allied forces also occupied Cape Endaiadere, south of Buna. The heaviest fighting of the entire New Guinea campaign was reported raging in the narrow coastal strip where the Japs are pinned with their backs to the sea between Buna and the Gona mission, 15 miles up the coast...
Fifty-six days after they landed in New Guinea last August, the Japanese were only 32 air miles from Port Moresby. But they had advanced too fast. They were weakened by starvation and dysentery...