guado canal is often seen as a campaign with major mistakes on both sides. Ernest and trevor du pis, in the encyclopaedia of military history, says,. the americans made fewer mistakes than the japanese, and that's why they won. But you can begin to see, basically after pearl harbor, that the writing is on the wall for what the Japans have signed up for. In new guinea, fewer than a thousand australian soldiers were killed. From february first 19 forty three, the end of the buna gona pain, until january 19 forty four, during the large japanese attack on finshaven,