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The Battle of Balikpapan was the concluding stage of Operation Oboe, the campaign to liberate Japanese-held British and Dutch Borneo. The landings took place on 1 July 1945. The landings took place on 1 July 1945.
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]
This is the complete order of battle of Allied and Japanese forces during the Borneo campaign of 1945. As the campaign was fought in three geographically separate areas and the same air and naval units supported more than one of these battles the order of battle is split into the three areas.
Naval Battle of Balikpapan, on 24 January 1942, in which American destroyers damaged a Japanese troop convoy in the Makassar Strait, near Balikpapan in the Dutch East Indies; Battle of Balikpapan (1942), on 23-25 January 24, 1942, in which the Japanese captured Balikpapan from the Dutch; Battle of Balikpapan (1945), in which Allied forces ...
The First Battle of Balikpapan took place on 23–25 January 1942, off the major oil-producing town and port of Balikpapan, on Borneo, in the Netherlands East Indies.After capturing mostly-destroyed oilfields at Tarakan, Japanese forces send an ultimatum to the Dutch that they would be executed if they destroyed the oilfields there, to no avail.
The Battle of Balikpapan began when Australian and Dutch troops made an amphibious landing a few miles north of Balikpapan, Borneo. The Inner German Border was established as the boundary between the Western and Soviet occupation zones of Germany. British troops withdrew from Magdeburg, now part of the Soviet occupation zone. [1]
They were originally activated during World War II and fought during the Battle of Okinawa and the Battle of Balikpapan (1945). They specialized in close air support and during the course of the war were credited with only one plane shot down. [2] Following the surrender of Japan, the squadron was deactivated on 11 March 1946.
Naval Base Balikpapan at Balikpapan, Fleet Post Office # 1156, use after fall of US Naval Bases in the Philippines retaken in June 1945 in the Battle of Balikpapan [20] Naval Base Batavia at Batavia , Java (now Jakarta )Fleet Post Office #1155 (lost March 1, 1942) [ 21 ]