MacArthur's biographer William Manchester relates a story Lt. General George Kenney, commanding officer Allied air loved repeating of how he'd gone back to Australia for a week, and MacArthur had stolen his house, claiming it was cooler at night than his own.
As a result, after landing in the Buna–Garara area in July 1942, Horii led a column of 8,500 men of the IJA 144th Regiment overland on the Kokoda Trail over the treacherous Owen Stanley mountain range in an attempt to capture Port Moresby.
Auschwitz Report (book), a 2006 book about Auschwitz, unrelated to the Auschwitz Protocols, first published in 1946 as a 48-page medical report by Leonardo de Benedetti and Primo Levi about Buna-Monowitz, one of the Auschwitz satellite camps
The actual history of the city began in 1958 with a conference of the Central Committee of the SED on "Chemistry Program of the GDR", on which the settlement of labor in the vicinity of chemical sites Buna - Schkopau and Leuna was decided.
There are two principal varieties, distinct enough to be considered separate languages: the Kulango of Bondoukou (Bonduku), and that of Bouna (Buna).
At the end of the 1950s the advertising slogan "Plastic and rubber from Schkopau" (Plaste und Elaste aus Schkopau) was introduced, in order to promote the spectrum of products of the Buna Chemical Works.
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Buna is not a town, but was the name of the first synthetic rubber which was produced in the Buna factory at Schkopau.
During the Japanese Navy's planning of their New Guinea Campaign (air strikes against Lae and Salamaua, disembarkation in Huon Gulf, New Britain (Rabaul), New Ireland (Kavieng), Finch Harbor (also called Finschhafen), and the capture of Morobe and Buna), it envisioned those territories as support points to implement the capture of Port Moresby.
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Supporting this force was the 25th Air Fleet, (Yokohama Air Corps) led by Rear Admiral Sadayoshi Yamada, based in Rabaul, Lae, Salamaua, Buna and Deboyne island, composed of 60 Mitsubishi A6M "Zero" fighters, 48 Mitsubishi G3M "Nell" and 26 Aichi E13A "Jake" and Mitsubishi F1M "Pete" reconnaissance seaplanes.
Perez was denounced to the Occupation authorities and arrested in Paris on September 21, 1943 and detained in the Drancy internment camp before being transported to Auschwitz where he was assigned to the Monowitz subcamp to serve as a slave laborer for I.G. Farben at the Buna-Werke.