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[[Image:Work fight or perish (RC02370).jpg|thumb|An Australian Government leaflet bearing the likeness and signature of Prime Minister [[John Curtin]], telling Australians that they must make sacrifices for the war effort.]]
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Australian forces also defeated an attempt to capture the strategic [[Milne Bay]] area in August 1942. During the [[Battle of Milne Bay]] two brigades of Australian troops, designated Milne Force, supported by two RAAF fighter squadrons defeated a smaller Japanese invasion force made up of elite [[Japanese Special Naval Landing Forces]] units. This was the first notable Japanese land defeat and raised Allied morale across the Pacific Theatre.<ref>Coates (2006). Page 232.</ref>
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[[Image:Buna (AWM 014008).jpg|thumb|left|Australian light tanks and infantry during the final assault on Buna]]

Australian and US forces [[Battle of Buna-Gona|attacked the Japanese bridgehead in Papua]] in late November 1942 but did not capture it until January 1943. The Allied force comprised the exhausted 7th Division and the inexperienced and ill-trained [[32nd Infantry Division (United States)|US 32nd Infantry Division]] and was short of artillery and supplies. Due to a lack of supporting weapons and the Allied high command's insistence on unreasonable deadlines the Allied tactics during the battle were ce(contracted; show full)
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