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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.
Map showing the Borneo campaign of mid-1945. Labuan is off the north-west coast of Borneo. Labuan is a small island in the mouth of Brunei Bay with an area of 35 square miles (91 km 2). Before the Pacific War, it formed part of the British-administered Straits Settlements and had a population of 8,960. [1]
Map of Borneo, based on information from several maps. Light yellow = Indonesia; Light orange = Malaysia; Green = Brunei; Source: Image:Borneo2 map english names.PNG, by Astrokey44: Author: Mortadelo2005: Other versions: Derivative works of this file: Borneo admin map-hu.svg. Image:Borneo2 map english names.PNG
The Battle of Tarakan was the first stage in the Borneo campaign of 1945. It began with an amphibious landing by Allied forces on 1 May, code-named Operation Oboe One; the Allied ground forces were drawn mainly from the Australian 26th Brigade, but included a small element of Netherlands East Indies personnel. The main objective of the landing ...
The Battle of Borneo was a successful campaign by Japanese Imperial forces for control of Borneo island and concentrated mainly on the subjugation of the Raj of Sarawak, Brunei, North Borneo, and the western part of Kalimantan that was part of the Dutch East Indies.
Map of the 1942 American-British-Dutch-Australian Command. To the north, the US Naval Base Philippines fell to Japan before Borneo in 1941 and 1942, as such many US Navy ships and submarines escaped the Philippines and traveled south to ports in Borneo and the Dutch East Indies.
Operation Platypus was an operation by Allied special reconnaissance personnel from Z Special Unit ("Z Force") during the Borneo Campaign of World War II.Platypus involved small groups being inserted into the Balikpapan area of Dutch Borneo (Kalimantan), to gather information and organise local people as resistance fighters against the Japanese.