Maggot Beach
The photograph of the dead soldiers on Maggot Beach was the first photograph published in the United States during World War II to show American soldiers dead on the battlefield.
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Source
- Text: Kaj Metz
- Photos: Wikimedia Commons
- Pacific Wrecks
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Museum
Point of interest
Monument
- Memorial Herman L. Bottcher - Buna
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- 32nd Infantry Division Memorial Buna - Buna
Cemetery
Fortification
- Type 3 (1914) 76.2mm Gun Buna - Buna
- Sanananda Fortified Region - Sanananda
- Huggins Road Block - Sanananda
Ship wreck
Crash site
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