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On 18 January, using small fishing boats, the Japanese landed at Sandakan, the seat of government of British North Borneo. On the morning of 19 January Governor Charles Robert Smith surrendered British North Borneo and was interned with his staff. The occupation of British Borneo was thus completed.
The Japanese main unit for this mission was the 35th Infantry Brigade led by Major General Kiyotake Kawaguchi. [1] The invasion of Borneo was part of a large Japanese invasion in the Pacific, which starting on December 7, 1941 attacked or invaded the United States, Great Britain, and Thailand, including territories in Burma, Malaya, and the ...
A map showing the progress of the Borneo campaign. The plans for the Allied attacks were known collectively as Operation Oboe. [13] The invasion of Borneo was the second stage of Operation Montclair, [1] which was aimed at destroying Imperial Japanese forces in, and re-occupying the NEI, Raj of Sarawak, Brunei, the colonies of Labuan and British North Borneo, and the southern Philippines. [14]
Japanese occupation of Malaya / Borneo. 1941–1945: ... British Borneo comprised the four northern parts of the island of ... Japanese forces numbered about 31,000 ...
Two days before the attack on Malaya, Hudsons of No 1 Squadron RAAF spotted the Japanese invasion fleet but, given uncertainty about the ships' destination and instructions to avoid offensive operations until attacks were made against friendly territory, Sir Robert Brooke-Popham, Commander-in-Chief of British Far East Command, did not allow the ...
The camp, known from its inception as Batu Lintang, was near completion for occupation by May 1941. [6] The Japanese first invaded the island of Borneo in mid December 1941, landing on the west coast near Miri; [7] invasion was completed by 23 January 1942 when they landed at Balikpapan on the east coast. [8]
In the first stage of the war, the British saw the Japanese advance to Borneo as motivated by political and territorial ambitions rather than economic factors. [106] The occupation drove many people in the coastal towns to the interior, searching for food and escaping the Japanese. [107]
The British Secretary of State for the Colonies submitted a memo on the constitutional policies that should be followed in Malaya and the Borneo territories after they were liberated from the Japanese, and the British War Cabinet appointed a committee from among its members on 6 January 1944, to consider the memo and make recommendations for ...