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This was a battle fought by Australians
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This was a battle fought by Americans and Australians
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This was a battle fought mostly by Americans however many australians fought as rienforsments.
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The American company (a company is a group of soliders. it usually consists of 80–225 soldiers) ran into a number of Japanese patrols making about 320 meters.The Australian company ran into heavy Japanese opposition very quickly and covered 180 meters.
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The Australian 25th Brigade sent one battalion through the swamps, to attack the Japanese positions from the east. They had done the same a day earlier (22 november 1942).
Both attacks failed, at a cost of 129 Australian killed and wounded. -
The 25th Brigade was no longer strong enough to launch a new attack. The Australian 21st Brigade (1100 men strong) came and helped the 25th Brigade.
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Five Australian Bren gun carriers reached Porlock Harbor they were used in an attack along the coast, and all five were destroyed within twenty minutes.
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The Australian 30th Brigade relieved the 16th Brigade. Later that day The fresh Australian troops attempted one of many frontal assault how ever it was without success
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The 39th Battalion was finally able to clear the defenders out of Gona village . however hand-to-hand fighting continued in Gona until the afternoon of 9 December.
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The Japanese lost at least 638 dead during the defence of Gona, while the Australians lost 750 men dead, wounded and missing.
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The remaining Americans and Australians attacked the last of the japanese, who fought until the next day.
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At noon the two senior Japanese officers in the mission, Colonel Tamamoto and Captain Tasuda, committed suicide. even so the fighting continued until the last of the japanese died.
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The japanese troops were abandond with no more freash supplies coming in. Most tried to slip through the Allied defence line. The Allies didn't know this until 10 days later.
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This day there was a heavy artillery bombardment from 10:15 to 10:30 this was followed by a five minute mortar bombardment. The final Japanese positions were overrun by 13:00 on 22 January.
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during this battel 2,700 Australian and 798 American where killed, injured or missing
